172 Quotes About Sailing

Gluppit the prawling strangles, there!

The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for mostof us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.

All these thoughts of love and strifeGlimmered through his lurid life,As the stars' intenser lightThrough the red flames o'er him trailing, As his ships went sailing, sailing, Northward in the summer night.

A soft landing covers a multitude of sins.

He stared at her hard and long, as if he were gauging a cloudbank that might be worth the trouble to sail around rather than through.

Read on and I will tell you what to do in the future to avoid getting smashed and find yourself with nothing but little pieces of drift floating around in the ship's wake.

Don't stop and drift in the middle of the traffic lane, even if the fish are biting. The fish you catch might weigh many tons and have a propeller on the end and a bulbous bow on the other.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world