Top 49 Quotes About Nautical: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Nautical

#1. As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers on all possible occasions, so I turned military at once, called my dinner my rations, saluted all new comers, and ordered a dress parade that very afternoon.

Louisa May Alcott

#2. The SAFE was slain in battle. A great flaming nautical pyre carries it off to VAULTHALLA.

Andrew Hussie

#3. Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber.

Graham Joyce

#4. We need to borrow your boat," said Vimes.
"Bugger off!"
"I'm choosing to believe that was a salty nautical expression meaning 'Why, certainly,'" said Vimes.

Terry Pratchett

#5. There exists an oasis where inspiration bursts forth like black gold from the fertile loam and every odd bellbird chirps a melody worth remembering. There's no bloody map or nautical chart that can deliver you there, but you know the instant you've arrived because you never ever want to depart.

Adam G. Tarsitano

#6. having been jostled by a nautical-looking negro who had come from one of the queer dark courts on the precipitous hillside which formed a short cut from the waterfront to the deceased's home

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. We hated the cruise. Our cabin was deep in the bowels of the ship, the nautical equivalent of nosebleed seats.

Janet Ambrosi Wertman

#8. You're so adorable when you're nautical,

Joe Hill

#9. In those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich I was as trusting and as stupid as a bird dog who wants to go out with any man with a gun, or a trained pig

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Curse it!" said Good - for I am sorry to say he had a habit of using strong language when excited - contracted, no doubt, in the course of his nautical career; "curse it! I've killed him.

H. Rider Haggard

#11. Where are we?" Nick shouted.
"I don't know, you're the nautical one. I just piloted the boat out of the harbor."
"Pirated! You pirated it out of the harbor!"
"Semantics.

Abigail Roux

#12. What's chumming?" I asked, wondering if it was some old English nautical term for making friends.

Raleigh Blake

#13. It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

Barry S. Strauss

#14. Quite a bit of his swearing was pure nautical genius.

Michael G. Manning

#15. You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died.
(In "The Nautical Chart" by Arturo Perez-Reverte)

Justin Scott

#16. Before Lind's experiments, scurvy was not clearly defined as a disease.The term was used as a catchphrase to include all manner of nautical ailments.

Stephen R. Bown

#17. I couldn't stop thinking about blue eyes and the way he smelled, his scent was a mix of liquor, winter fresh and Nautical sport.

Glenna Maynard

#18. It takes a minimum of six people, working in close harmony, to successfully flush a nautical toilet. That's why those old ships carried such large crews.

Dave Barry

#19. When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two shits about who you are.

Tanc Sade

#20. For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#21. The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

Joshua Slocum

#22. We were not a crew; we were only here at the same time.

Rosemary McGuire

#23. There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

Thomas Gibbons

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

Francis Chichester

#25. Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Francis Chichester

#26. All that yohoho stuff's for landlubbers, or it would be if we ever used words like landlubber. Do you know the difference between port and starboard? I don't. I've never even drunk starboard.

Terry Pratchett

#27. Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

Donald Hamilton

#28. The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

Eric Hiscock

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

Muse

#30. To reach a port we must set sail

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#31. Listen, Miss, boats are supposed to float. Even if they break up, they usually still float and show up on a shore somewhere. There have been no reports of wreckage or abandoned boats. At this point, no news is still good news. Don't worry. It's too early to worry.

Cathy Ostlere

#32. 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

#33. I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

Ernest K. Gann

#34. The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

Francis Stokes

#35. If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

E.B. White

#36. There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

Herman Melville

#37. Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

Tim Powers

#38. Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

Joseph Conrad

#40. Spirits rise as the sails fill ...
Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare.
Close the hatches and ports!
We're sailing again!

Jim Moore

#41. Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.
Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.

Patrick O'Brian

#42. In a French accent developed through a lifetime of using English I said, 'Hello sir, I would like to row the English Channel in a bath please.'
What actually arrived in the ear of the French Navy man was, 'Hello sire, I would like to fight a condom across a bath if you please.

Tim FitzHigham

#43. Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is ... is freedom.

Johnny Depp