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It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals. — Larry Craig

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. — Patton Oswalt

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two. — Junipero Serra

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. — Jules Verne

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Several sailors, sheltered behind the curved bottoms of their boats, were watching this battle of the sky and the sea. — Guy De Maupassant

Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors. — Maddox

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money. — Tom Feeney

More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea. — Marty Rubin

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

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen. — Thomas Hughes

If a ship's coming in from a port known to have plague of some kind, the damned Hollanders make the sailors swim ashore naked. — Diana Gabaldon

Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. — Melody Anne

They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches, rape and fratricide. — Marie Browne

All sailors are afraid of the sea. They know what it is. — Jens Bjorneboe

For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships. — Ashish Jaiswal

It was on old joke among underfed, angry sailors that should mutiny fail, the weight of their bodies would not be enough to hang them. — Marcus Rediker

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors. — Doug Davidson

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains. — Felix Baumgartner

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

I loved them as poets love the poetry
that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea. — Derek Walcott

We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers. — Lew Wallace

Sailors didn't train for hurricanes, because they weren't supposed to be in hurricanes. — Julian Guthrie

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages. — John Biggins

The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul. — Joseph Conrad

I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies. — Andie MacDowell

Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in morning, sailors take warning. — Joanne Simon Tailele

Sailors approaching the coast in a fog can recognize the Santa Barbara Channel by the smell of bitumen which floats on the water. — Caroline C. Leighton

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. — Ronald Reagan

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. — Carl Sagan

For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance. — Herman Melville

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

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

Most sailors weren't observant in that fashion. Pity she wasn't most sailors. Jinan Seton was a fine specimen of masculinity. — Katharine Ashe

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World. — Helge Ingstad

strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought — Howard Zinn

Lucullus certainly couldn't sail the boat. Cats make lousy sailors. — Manel Loureiro

Springtime blooms the starry tree
Bearing fruit the mariners see.
High by night and low by dawn
The silver apple guides us home. — F.T. McKinstry

Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it
to Sailors. — James Lawrence

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

Which goes to show you, right there, the difference between sailors and marines: marines are fucking stupid. Running when you don't have to. — Christopher Moore

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. — Edmund Waller

We are the Amazons, killers of men. Only the feeble-headed try their luck with us. — Anne Fortier

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison

Ships are but boards, sailors but men. — William Shakespeare

The sailors in the Construction Battalions had been nicknamed Seabees, based on the initials of the unit. — Alex Malcolm

The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true. — Liu Bei

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

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague. — Salman Rushdie

other tales, the sailors reach a land of intelligent talking animals who find humans disgusting and rather stupid. — Robin Hobb

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. — Jon Anderson

The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French sailors), — Stephen Clarke

You must be a light unto yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. — John Sweeney

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. — Enoch Powell

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ... — Van Morrison

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat

Sailors are like my overies due North — Amy Spector

With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492. — Alan Axelrod

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home. — Brian Rathbone

All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them — Leonard Cohen

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. — Janet Flanner

Maya, Indian goddess of illusions. Siren of shipwrecked sailors. If only you lactated Pinot Noir, you'd be perfect. — Rex Pickett

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. — Eduardo Galeano

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks. — Kate Morton

The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ... — Muse

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. — H.G.Wells

It's enough to want to make even sainted sailors resort to salty language. — Samuel J. Biondo

triremes with a half deck for carrying full sail and more sailors — Christian Cameron

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it. — Walter Scott