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Quotes About Sail

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
~ Jane Austen
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
~ Soichiro Honda
Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me.
~ John Paul Jones
He remembered hearing of the superstition that told them they would come to a sharp brink, and sail over it, to fall forever from the world in space and darkness. The legends had not kept them back, he knew; but he wondered how often, in their lonely sailing, they had intimations of depthless plunge, and how often they were repeated in their dreams.
~ John Williams
Got a ship with women and cats aboard, you'll have the finest luck you can hope
~ Scott Lynch
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
~ Charles Dickens
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
~ Samuel Rogers
Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
~ Samuel Rogers
All you know is you must change sail to catch it.
~ Stephanie Hemphill
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.
~ Saul Williams
wind. You can only control the sail.
~ Joseph Finder
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
~ Bill Cosby
Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class
~ Buzzy Trent
The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.
~ Shinzo Abe
Ragnall Ivarson. I had never met him, but I knew him. I knew his reputation. No man sailed a ship better, no man fought more fiercely, no man was held in more fear. He was a savage, a pirate, a wild king of nowhere.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. The twelve-o'clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. A
~ Joshua Slocum
By noon,the tide had turned. The drakars emblazoned with wolf and dragon joined the fleet of the Hawk as they set sail for the city of the king.
~ Josie Litton
Are you going to acquire a woman on every voyage we sail on?" he grumbled.
~ Judson Roberts
Mary had been the object of a war between ordinary solid American values and Hollywood, where even money is lost in the shuffle among the hard floors and 5:00 a.m. wardrobe calls of an invisible city named for a plant that never existed, named by a clan that waits for the next movie to sail away on.
~ Eve Babitz
Separation on the River Kiang KO-JIN goes west from Ko-kaku-ro, The smoke-flowers are blurred over the river. His lone sail blots the far sky. And now I see only the river, The long Kiang, reaching heaven. Taking
~ Ezra Pound
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
~ Kinky Friedman
How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever? Set sail to sea, but pulled off course by the light of golden treasure.
~ Metallica