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Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class — Buzzy Trent

A soft landing covers a multitude of sins. — Katherine Starbird

I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids. — Ernesto Bertarelli

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

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

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be. — Ella Maillart

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream — Robbie Williams

Trees quiver in the wind,
sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot. — Dag Hammarskjold

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott

You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew. — Annie Proulx

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

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it. — P. J. O'Rourke

[Sailing term]
"Going through life on broad reach"
[could not be more relaxed]... — Unk.

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

Sailing to an island unknown
Failing to find your way home
you walk under a sea
leagues beneath us — Maggie Stiefvater

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt. — Michael Chabon

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

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. — Peggy Noonan

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. — Henry Van Dyke

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

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. — P.G. Wodehouse

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons. — Matt Goldman

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world. — Jonathan Powell

It's not always plain sailing , especially when you're flying — Brendan Rodgers

Go small, go simple, go now — Larry Pardey

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. — Sterling Hayden

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn. — Daria Werbowy

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see. — Andrew Jackson

Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life. — Dennis Conner

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling ... — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me ... — Heinrich Heine

There is poetry of sailing as old as the world, — E.L. James

too young to live, too old to die — Jeffrey Rasley

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners. — Fred Allen

Now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal. — Tove Jansson

Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive. — Carsten Jensen

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. — Amelia Earhart

In every moment, we're sailing on oceans where wonders are not just the exception; they are the rule. — Robert A. Giacalone

The most important thing is sailing toward shore. — Russ Harris

To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way.
The Captain — Rusty Mills

concept: me, sailing through the milky way with many-coloured stars caught in my hair. there's no pain up here, only laughter and peace — L.J. Buchanan

It's better to be the rooster than the feather duster. — Jimmy Spithill

When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat. — Laura Dekker

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast. — Charles Dickens

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids. — Lin Pardey

We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together. — Seth Adam Smith

him from sailing would go away, but when — Laurie Fabiano

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass. — John Ruskin

I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail. — Philippe Petit

BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand — Alex Blackwell

Hey!" he shouted. "This is my fucking Lake of Death. I have complete and utter exclusive rights to sailing this lake. Get the fuck off my lake! — Jeff Noon

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

Only fools and passengers drink at sea. — Alan Villiers

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

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

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

Nothing comes sailing by itself. — Alexander Dale Oen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aboard a sailing ship sometime around the War of 1812, — Kate Milford

To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out." — Francis Chichester

Arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier. — Thor Heyerdahl

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

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. — Felix Riesenberg

Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy. — Craig Ferguson

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht! — David Lee Roth

He stared at her hard and long, as if he were gauging a cloudbank that might be worth the trouble to sail around rather than through. — A.S. Peterson

It's not hard to fail ... it's hard to accept you failed ... but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing — Josh Stern

I challenge you to a duel! screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. — Fernando Pessoa

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut. — Craig Ferguson

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task) ... — Garcilaso De La Vega

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time. — Erik Larson

To reach a port we must set sail — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer. — Patrick O'Brian

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead. — Arthur M. Jolly

Unlike in sailing, an even keel is no good when talking suspense. — Alan Orloff

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

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

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