It takes a minimum of six people, working in close harmony, to successfully flush a nautical toilet. That's why those old ships carried such large crews.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea.
Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.
I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.