Top 100 Quotes About Sail
#1. A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
Bill Cosby
#2. If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
Freya Stark
#3. FAR FROM THE WHARF, well across the bay and almost to the open sea, was a tangle of rocks so treacherous that no captain familiar with these waters would sail his ship there.
Dave Barry
#4. Being on sea saile, being on land settle.
[Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
George Herbert
#5. Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Thomas Campion
#7. The wind of God is always blowing ... but you must hoist your sail.
Francois Fenelon
#8. A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
Benjamin Franklin
#10. They think the only road is where they're heading, but you and I were meant to sail upon the sea.
Heather Dale
#11. I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
Philippe Petit
#12. There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer - a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters.
Tom Neale
#13. Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels ... it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea.
Richard Adams
#14. I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
Herman Melville
#15. As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
Ben Jonson
#16. I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
Billy Campbell
#17. And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, towards a sun which will never rise.
Anne Rice
#18. Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#19. Living's immediacy, you go full sail, you're in a fever of motion. Until it's safe and past and done and dead and you can say, like waking from a dream, "Yes I was happy then, yes now it's all over I can see I was happy then." Maybe that's the advantage of dying?
Joyce Carol Oates
#20. Know yourself, he thinks, as they sail past his house. And go in swinging.
Patrick Ness
#22. I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.
Garth Brooks
#23. I'll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I'll be the wind in its sail.
Jade Parker
#24. To succeed means you to sail across some difficult courses.
Auliq Ice
#25. On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal parts-and we wanted it all.
Paula McLain
#26. Our dreams have been doctored.We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas.We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter..
Arundhati Roy
#27. Men of character continued to sail to their death for men of greed.
Barry Lopez
#28. Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#29. One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
Abby Sunderland
#30. The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!
Amitav Ghosh
#31. I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.
Alexander Wang
#32. I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.
Doug Davidson
#33. How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
Al-Shafi'i
#34. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison
#35. Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.
Edward Kennedy
#36. I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow ... I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
Barbara Kingsolver
#37. In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us; we should treat each other therefore with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.
Fernando Pessoa
#38. Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
Carl Sagan
#39. A time of terror comes. A dark time. The graves continue to open and the Dead King prepares to sail.But the world holds worse things than dead men. A dark time comes.
Mark Lawrence
#40. There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.
Janice Thompson
#41. All right boys, let's sail away! Show those bastards how airship pirates fly a ship!
Katherine McIntyre
#42. Allow yourself the Freedom to Fail before you see Success Sail!-RVM
R.v.m.
#43. Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.
Debasish Mridha
#44. The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a "right time" for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing that you have always wanted to do. Start now!
Paul Gibbons
#45. I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
Hunter S. Thompson
#46. Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
Lowell Thomas
#47. When the First Sea Lord, Admiral Leach, told the Prime Minister and her cabinet colleagues that it would take three weeks to sail the Task Force to the Falklands, he was met with the incredulous response 'surely you mean three days?
Ian R. Gardiner
#48. It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing.
Honore De Balzac
#49. Truth is ... You wouldn't want to sail your boat backwards, so why would you want to sail backwards with your life? Prosperity is always ahead of you & never behind!
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#50. If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?
Claudio Ranieri
#51. He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and evenly, and this, he knew, was for him a minor sort of tragedy.
William Styron
#52. The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
Benjamin Franklin
#53. And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river.
Rumi
#54. Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.
Elizabeth Aston
#55. The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.
Dan Simmons
#56. Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Franz Grillparzer
#57. Cancer is not a pretty pink ribbon, people aren't sail through their treatments. They are bald, and throwing up and some of the treatments actually increase their risk for other cancers.
Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
#58. Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.
Leonard Nimoy
#59. One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
Charles Spurgeon
#60. Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?
Shimon Peres
#61. Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
#63. All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.
John Masefield
#64. I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.
Alvin Martin
#65. We must be bold . . . as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.
Stanley McChrystal
#66. The next day, Magellan gave the order to weigh anchor. The ships fired a salvo of cannon that reverberated among the splendid dark green mountains, gray ravines, and azure glaciers of the strait, and the armada set sail once again, heading west, always west.
Laurence Bergreen
#67. When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
Oliver Herford
#68. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
Ami Ayalon
#69. The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.
Joni Mitchell
#70. Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
Gordon Lightfoot
#71. The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered
and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#72. Rise above storms.
Sail against tides.
Succeed against the odds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#73. One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go.
Eric Butterworth
#74. That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
Sebastian Barry
#75. Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
Matthew Arnold
#77. Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with a small copper chest.
Neil Gaiman
#78. The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.
Swami Prabhavananda
#79. Better to sail alone, and let the battered vessel wander where it will. The only honest course. Assume nothing, trust no one, encumber not and be not encumbered, make your own way, steer your own ship and none other, exactly so.
Brian Doyle
#80. Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.
Richard Whately
#81. The ship continues to sail further from our mother land, and I continue to want to be with you, wherever and however that may be.
Elbert Or
#82. I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.
Jan Valtin
#83. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
Annie Dillard
#84. Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry me beyond
Eowyn Ivey
#85. She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived there, were gone: were rubbed out; were past; were unreal, and now this was real; the boat and the sail with its patch; Macalister with his earrings; the noise of the waves
all this was real.
Virginia Woolf
#86. Lucullus certainly couldn't sail the boat. Cats make lousy sailors.
Manel Loureiro
#88. A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#89. If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.
P.G. Wodehouse
#91. Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
Just because they feel hopeless
But you don't have to be a thing like that
You be a ship in a bottle set sail
Dave Matthews Band
#92. Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#93. Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
Joseph Conrad
#94. Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
J. Maarten Troost
#95. She could hear again the ripple of water, the flapping sail. She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind. A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.
Kate Chopin
#96. I think network television is really hard because it has to sail right away. HBO's so much more nurturing, patient. They think it takes a while for a show to kind of congeal and figure out what its strong spots are.
Amanda Peet
#97. I would rather sail and hit a rock
than sit and rot in dry dock.
Lester Roloff
#98. George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
Adam McKay
#99. Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
George Orwell
#100. A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
Mahatma Gandhi
