Sailor Quotes

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as ...

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes a...

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...

Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for ...

A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale bl...

You must be a light unto yourself.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...