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"Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him." - Charles C. Davis "It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs, but what a ship is... is freedom." - Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Carribean" "A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind." - Webb Chiles "There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea." - Old Capstan Chantey attributed to - - - Acharsis, 6th Century BC "Twenty years from now you will be more disppointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive - R.L. Stevenson I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther - H.D. Thoreau You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home. —Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. -Kenneth Grahame Wind in The Willows A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what a ship is for. - Anonymous Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving....we must sail, sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Cruisers don't have plans, just intentions. - Anonymous The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black. -Nathanael G. Herreshoff Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid. -Robert N. Rose |
