Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
Ship Quotes
The two happiest days in a boat owners life is the day he gets the boat and the day he sells it.
A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water. It is a means of inducing hatred for your fellow men by trapping you in a confined space with too few of them to provide variety and too many to allow solitude.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Each rope distinct, Flagged, and the figurehead with golden tits Arching our way, it never anchors; it’s No sooner present than it turns to past. Right to the last We think each one will heave to and unload All good into our lives, all we are owed For waiting so devoutly and so long. But […]
Harbor, n. A place where ships taking shelter from storms are exposed to the fury of customs.
Don’t give up the ship!
He grounds the warship he walks on. (describing the ship’s captain in the grounding of the USS Enterprise in San Francisco Bay)
