R.c. Slocum Quotes

#1. I'm not looking for guidance.

Liam Gallagher

#2. Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

Joshua Slocum

#3. During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.

Carol Shea-Porter

#4. Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!

Joshua Slocum

#5. Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

David Brooks

#6. I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

Joshua Slocum

#7. To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.

Joshua Slocum

#8. I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Joshua Slocum

#9. On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.

Joshua Slocum

#10. To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

Joshua Slocum

#11. The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.

Dan Jenkins

#12. As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

Joshua Slocum

#13. Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

Joshua Slocum

#14. The best philosophy was wrapped up in history. It was, in effect, storytelling from a particular era. The worst was the pure sort. University stuff.

Andrew Miller

#15. Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

Ayrton Senna

#16. It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

Joshua Slocum

#18. Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

N. T. Wright

#19. Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.

Joshua Slocum

#20. And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

Joshua Slocum

#21. I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

Joshua Slocum

#22. What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.

Anonymous

#23. Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

Joshua Slocum

#24. Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

Terry Pratchett

#25. It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise ... -Bob Slocum

Joseph Heller

#26. I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.

Martha Shelley

#27. My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

Joshua Slocum

#28. Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

Joshua Slocum

#29. If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#30. Superstition needs no grounding in truth, but once rooted, it grows a strong though twisted tree.

Terry Goodkind

#31. When you find that the person worth taking a bullet from is the one standing behind it

Andy Flynn

#32. But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

Joshua Slocum

#33. As the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

Joshua Slocum

#34. It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

Joshua Slocum

#35. They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.

Joshua Slocum

#36. Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

Joshua Slocum

#37. To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

Joshua Slocum

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

Joshua Slocum