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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad

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

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. — Arthur Ashe

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. — George William Curtis

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love — Jimi Hendrix

Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us. — Catherine Of Siena

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough. — P. J. O'Rourke

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us. — Guy Gavriel Kay

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself. — Martin Ryle

Nothing comes sailing by itself. — Alexander Dale Oen

Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.
Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large. — Patrick O'Brian

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger. — Hammond Innes

Only fools and passengers drink at sea. — Alan Villiers

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell. — John Gurdon

Always sailing, sailing, sailing ... never quite reaching. — Cressida Cowell

When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away — Guy Gavriel Kay

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning. — Larry Ellison

Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are. — David Gemmell

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones

Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye. — Adam Young

And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,
O, it was so grand to be sailing! — Henrik Ibsen

The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Now comes good sailing. — Henry David Thoreau

Charter boats are like books with no covers. — Tania Aebi

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. — Donald Hamilton

Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship. — Susanna Clarke

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. — Oliver Goldsmith

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

They may be hot and they may be nice but they're also men. And men can be idiots. So it isn't smooth sailing, honey, and it never will be. — Kristen Ashley

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in. — Tristan Jones

Capes are the poetic points of continents. They are the summits of our sailing souls. — Kaci Cronkhite

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes