Quotes from Frederick Marryat

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

I am sure the Americans can fix nothing without a drink. If you meet, you drink; if you part, you drink; if you make acquaintance, you drink…. They commence it early in life, and they continue it, until they drop into the grave.

Every man paddle his own canoe.

It's just six of one and half a dozen of the other.

I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons—because I'm bred to the sea.

Every man paddles his own canoe.