Sailors Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lucullus certainly couldn't sail the boat. Cats make lousy sailors.
— Manel Loureiro
Springtime blooms the starry treeBearing fruit the mariners see.
High by night and low by dawn
The silver apple guides us home. — F.T. McKinstry
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
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virginWe 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
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
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
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Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.
— Brian Rathbone
All men will be sailors thenUntil the sea shall free them — Leonard Cohen
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
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