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"Don't teach a sailor to shit in the ocean," she muttered. — Scott Lynch

It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home. — Bruce Chatwin

One of the floral arrangements swayed like a drunken sailor, then toppled, clattering to the floor. — Diana Dempsey

If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable - if the sea wants you and your time has come. — James Clavell

Calm seas never made a good sailor — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist! — W.S. Gilbert

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's. — Bernard Moitessier

A ballsy killer with the body of a goddess and the mouth of a sailor - in his eyes, that was perfection. — Bethany K. Lovell

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. — Charles Darwin

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

The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back. — David Walliams

Multiply. Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should — Herman Melville

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea. — George Alex Stevens

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen. — John Ratzenberger

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money. — Arthur Laffer

Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery. — Euripides

I'm what you call a Depression sailor. — Ernest Borgnine

Still, Hazel Levesque impressed him - even when she wasn't sitting atop a scary immortal supersonic horse who cussed like a sailor. — Rick Riordan

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

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship. — Michael Foreman

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped. — Ernesto Bertarelli

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden

If you can realistically render
a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint
a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck? — Horace

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. — George Bernard Shaw

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. — Abby Sunderland

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

If the sailor in his sling were to turn and look down on her, he'd know she was a whore by the tentacles. — Stepan Chapman

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

It is part of a sailor's life to die well. — Stephen Decatur

Like a siren who sings to the sailor, asking him to steer his ship into the rocks, the call of your blood could be my undoing - and yours. — Deborah Harkness

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm? — Emile Chartier

He combed his hair like Elvis and had a slightly dangerous look, like a sailor two drinks into a shore leave that will end badly. — Stephen King

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him. — Herman Melville

Smooth sailing doth not a sailor make. — Ron Feasel

Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me. — Dorothy Atkinson

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts. — Mickey Drexler

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor — William Shakespeare

Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor. — Dolly Parton

Ogygia. Still, Hazel Levesque impressed him - even when she wasn't sitting atop a scary immortal supersonic horse who cussed like a sailor. He — Rick Riordan

She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms! — Avijeet Das

The marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot. — Anne Sexton

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!" — Brian Blessed

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream. — Gordon Lightfoot

We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but - " He shrugged. " - so would you if it was always fish. — Clive Barker

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own. — Avi

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum. — Kathy Acker

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them. — Morgan Freeman

I have the mouth of a sailor. — Kristen Bell

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! — Paddy Chayefsky

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. — Herman Melville

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use
whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. — Alan Watts

Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor! — Tapan Ghosh

Nothing matches a Sailor's kiss coming back home where he belongs. — Sameh Elsayed

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake. — Peter Levi

Sailor's expressions ranged the gamut from A to Blank. — B.V. Lawson

You must be a light unto yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them! — Sailor Jerry

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea. — Bob Seger

Just because I have the vocabulary of a well educated sailor, doesn't mean I'm not a lady. — Someecards

If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat. — Sara Levine

When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment. — Abby Sunderland

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore De Balzac

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. — Bob Hope

Loving a sailor is not hard, the distance is hard, the sacrafices are hard, but loving him ... THATS THE EASIEST THING I HAVE DONE ... — Na

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. — Enoch Powell

He had been a sailor and a sinner — Stephen King

A sailor at war with the wind and the sea. — Ed Brubaker

For a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea — Honore De Balzac

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through. — James Cagney

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it. — Ricky Gervais

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. — John Ralston Saul

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction. — Hal Moore

In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. — Walter Scott

As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. — A.W. Tozer

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons

You don't become a real sailor until you sail in a storm. — Joan Bauer

My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with a 'Sailor Moon,' and they're just having a great time. — Joss Whedon

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming. — Leah Remini

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm a sailor, not a politician. — Fritz Sauckel

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester

And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. — Herman Melville

A good sailor knows everything is always changing. — Luanne Rice

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. — William Shakespeare

Poor Craw?" Ben retorted. "Poor Rory! Craw and Ari curse worse than a trucker shagging a sailor. — Amy Lane

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight. — Peter S. Beagle

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money! — Ronald Reagan

Like a silly amateur sailor I have drifted into very deep water. — Anonymous

Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune — Naoko Takeuchi

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler. — Evan Esar

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 — Arundhati Roy

I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship. — Nick Offerman