Quotes About Sailor

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

prod his halo back in place. It was composed of stiffened wire supposedly holding up a circlet covered with spangles and brilliants. In his case, the wire wasn't doing its job, and the damned thing listed to the side like a sailor whose pecker wasn't up to shore leave.

The thoughts of youth,' he continued, 'are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.

the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Careful, Sofia," said Don Lorenzo. "Don't teach a sailor to shit in the ocean," she muttered.

Q: How did the pirate stop smoking? A: He used the patch.

I'm Popeye the sailor man  dum dum I live in a cara-van  dum dum I op-en the door And fall-on the floor I'm Popeye the sailor man  dum dum

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that.

Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.

Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir.

Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

the sailor who broke down the door could perhaps have told frightful things if he had not forthwith gone completely mad—

And I'm never, never sick at sea!What, never?No, never!What, never?Hardly ever!He's hardly ever sick at sea!Then give three cheers, and one cheer moreFor the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

The warrior culture, on the other hand, values cohesion and obedience. The soldier or sailor is not free to do whatever he wants. He serves; he is bound to perform his duty.

A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Window Blind—No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind. The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow. And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. —Charles Edward Carryl, Davy and the Goblin: A Nautical Ballad

I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man.

Lincoln told a story of an Irish sailor who had been overtaken at sea by a heavy storm. The sailor thought he ought to pray, but didn't know how. So he fell to his knees and said, "Oh Lord! You know as well as meself that it's seldom I bodder ye, but if ye will only hear me and save me this time, bedad it will be a long time before I bodder ye again.

I have just had a thought about the cut of the Minerva's spanker-boom.' 'How little I understand of that sentence,' she said, admiring his drawing. 'And is there truly something on a ship called a f'c'sle? It seems to have an unwarranted excess of apostrophes. My suspicion is that when we landlubbers are not by, seamen do not use these words at all and talk quite normally.

I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

The smell of 500 newly kitted rookies could only be likened to an open Hindu sewerage works on a hot summer night by Delius. To try and 'cure' my B.D. I salted it and hung it outside in thunderstorms, I took it for walks, I hit it, in desperation, I sprayed it with Eau de Cologne, it made little difference, except once a sailor followed me home.