Sails / Sailing - Quotes

A man can pretend to be a lot of things in this world; but he can only pretend to be a sailor for as long as it takes to clear the harbour mouth!  - Bernard Hayman

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. - Dr. Thomas Fuller

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. - Robert Southwell

It is not the ship so much as the skilful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. - George William Curtis

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. - Rumi

One ship drives east and the other drives west by the same winds that blow. It’s the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar. - Don Bamford

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford. - George Matthew Adams

Sailing requires the management of all the systems on the boat, plus all the controls on the boat, while assessing the weather and navigation. It's planning everything to a fine level of detail and making the required adjustments all at the same time things are changing. - Unknown

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. - Charles Buxton

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labours hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. - Henry David Thoreau

Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift. - Franklin Roosevelt

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail. - Gustaf Lindborg

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came. - John F. Kenned

Wonders are many,and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him. - Sophocles