The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
Ship Quotes
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Each rope distinct, Flagged, and the figurehead with golden tits Arching our way, it never anchors; it’s No sooner present than it turns to past. Right to the last We think each one will heave to and unload All good into our lives, all we are owed For waiting so devoutly and so long. But […]
Harbor, n. A place where ships taking shelter from storms are exposed to the fury of customs.
Don’t give up the ship!
He grounds the warship he walks on. (describing the ship’s captain in the grounding of the USS Enterprise in San Francisco Bay)
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores, With a cargo of diamonds, Emeralds, amythysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold […]
What is a ship but a prison?
A ship is always referred to as “she” because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
