Top 30 Quotes About Seamen
#1. Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
Jonathan Swift
#2. O voyagers, O seamen,
You who came to port, and you whose bodies
Will suffer the trial and judgement of the sea,
Or whatever event, this is your real destination.'
So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna
On the field of battle.
Not fare well,
But fare forward, voyagers.
T. S. Eliot
#3. I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
My word was law from Ith to Emain,
And shook at Invar Amargin
The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,
And drove tumult and war away ...
William Butler Yeats
#4. Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
J. C. Squire
#5. Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
Herman Melville
#6. When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Diogenes
#7. I can't help it that this is the Bermuda Triangle-she pointed at her crotch-when guys venture there, they tend to stay. I tapped my chin. Oh, I thought you called it that because it's sucked in lots of seamen.
Kresley Cole
#8. They looked more like day laborers than seamen.
Erik Larson
#9. God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
Abraham Lincoln
#10. A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen.
Marmaduke William Pickthall
#11. There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#12. The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag.
Henry Clay
#13. The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#14. Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
John Amery
#15. Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.
In beauty, but do not condemn,
The seamen who embark and fail,
But only those who will not sail.
John Piper
#16. Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.
Dava Sobel
#17. A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
Jacques Maritain
#18. The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
Rose George
#19. Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.
Erik Larson
#20. I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.
Lord Byron
#21. Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.
Oliver Hazard Perry
#22. It doesn't matter," he said to his sheep. "I know other girls in other places." But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.
Paulo Coelho
#23. Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
Horatio Nelson
#24. Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
May Sarton
#27. I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.
Eric Dane
#28. I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
Joseph Conrad
#29. Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.
Alan Shearer
