A Sailor Quotes
Collection of top 97 famous quotes about A Sailor
A Sailor Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational A Sailor quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Careful, Sofia," said Don Lorenzo."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
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
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
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
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
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
Just because I have the vocabulary of a well educated sailor, doesn't mean I'm not a lady.
— Someecards
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
He had been a sailor and a sinner
— Stephen King
A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.
— Ed Brubaker
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
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
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.
— Thomas Gibbons
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
Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune
— Naoko Takeuchi
