11/9/2023 0 Comments Sailboat lingoIf you’re ready to leave your life on land behind and embark on an adventure, you’re truly a sailor at heart. “The questions that used to bother me at times do not weigh anything before the immensity of awake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea.” ― Bernard Moitessier ConclusionĮvery man’s dream is to sail around the world and be one with the sea. Sailing teaches alertness and courage and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.” ― George Matthew Adams “Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be Pirates” ― Mark Twain Whether you getaway or whether you don’t whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular and when you’ve done it, there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you’d much better not.” ― Kenneth Grahame, Wind in the Willows Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. “There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Rose Inspirational and Funny Sailing Quotes “Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts, the soul of a song is laid.” ― Robert N. “The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life it is a safe retreat.” ― L. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” ― Willa Cather “A man is never lost at sea.” ― Ernest Hemingway “Not all who wander are lost.” ― JRR Tolkien “A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.” ― Bernard Moitessier “It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.” ― George William Curtis “The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.” ― Edmund Gibbon “The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.” ― Annie Van De Wiele Explore! Dream! Discover!” ― Mark Twain Funny Sailing Quotes with a Hint of Wisdom “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.” ― Sir Francis Chichester “Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. “ I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ― Jimmy Dean “The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.” ― William Arthur Ward “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” ― Seneca “A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.” ― William Shedd “A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.” ― Thomas Carlyle: “The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid and avoids the storm he cannot weather.”― Anonymous “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ― Robin Lee Graham “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.” ― Leonardo da Vinci: “The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.” ― Samuel Butler Meaningful Yet Funny Sailing Quotes for Experienced Sailors “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” ― Brooks Atkinson “Life is simple if you just eat, sleep, and sail.” ― Anonymous One never left port, and the other was an atrocious liar.” ― Don Bamford “Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. “Sailing is best if you work like a captain and play like a pirate.” ― Anonymous “I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.” ― Alexandra Petri
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |