Slocum Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Joshua Slocum

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

Joshua Slocum

#6. Dan Rose's Sex God Method.

Anonymous

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.

Karl Popper

#10. 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

#11. Now, tomorrow you got to put on a happy face, not for me, nor May, or anyone else, just for yourself. 'Cause that's a magic trick I learned a long time ago, if you look like you're happy, you soon get to be.

Lesley Pearse

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I only enjoy legs day! For my training, it's sort of vital and I've learned to love it, I think.

Greg Rutherford

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

Joshua Slocum

#16. 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

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

Joshua Slocum

#19. The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.

Hedi Slimane

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

Joshua Slocum

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Joshua Slocum

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

Joshua Slocum

#26. You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.
And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,
your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment
and shining in its endless beauty.

Paul Ferrini

#27. 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

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

Joshua Slocum

#29. 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

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

Joshua Slocum

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

Joshua Slocum

#32. I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Thornton Wilder