A collection of quotes and phrases about boats.
Sailing – the most expensive way to travel third class.
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I love my boat.
and maybe 3 people.
A ship is safe at port, but that is not what a ship was made for.
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.”
Isak Dinesen
“He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.”
Thomas Fuller
“The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.”
Henry David Thoreau
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.”
Robin Lee Graham
“To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives.”
Carleton Mitchell
“The sea finds out everything you did wrong.”
Francis Stokes
“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows