Quotes About Voyage

Each adult was issued with a daily allowance of a pound of ship's biscuit, a pound of butter, and half a pound of cheese, all to be washed down with a gallon of (weak) ale. In addition, each passenger was given two pounds of salt beef or pork every week, as well as a ration of salted cod and dried peas.

There is no frigate like a book.

There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away.

For making a good voyage a pilot and wind are necessary: and for happiness, reason and art.

To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

It was good to travel to the other side of the world.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

Franklin concurred with Samuel Johnson that ship travel was like being in jail without the comforts of jail.

more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England's west coast. For all these vessels to shoot the Strait of Gibraltar in sequence and arrive punctually at various Barbary coast beaches, the two-week voyage must, in Churchill's phrase, "fit together like a jewelled bracelet." The challenge had roused the Royal Navy to

You just been travelin'.

Mr. Sparrow, you will accompany these fine men to the helm and provide us with the bearing to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the remainder of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase 'silent as the grave'. Do I make myself clear?

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.

The rich created the corporation as a vehicle to limit their risk to the assets of each voyage.

money into a corporation to finance the voyage. The corporation would then hire a crew to sail to the New World to look for treasure.

I'm in the mood to travel. Once you boys get settled I may go to China, for all you know.

they would be immune from arrest, safe for as long as they were at sea.

And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.

donald justice: i often wonder about the others, where they are bound for on the voyage, what is the reason for their silence, was there some reason to go away?

For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Life is just a journey.