Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon’s roar; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood, […]
Ship Quotes
There are many who wait for their ships to come in, For their ships to come in from the sea. This question they ask as they watch and wait: ‘Will a ship come home to me?’ The answer comes swift from a voyager old, A voyager weathered and gray: ‘Have you sent forth a craft […]
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
I feel like a ship deserting a sinking rat. (remark made by unidentified disgruntled employee upon quitting his job)
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
The two happiest days in a boat owners life is the day he gets the boat and the day he sells it.
A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water. It is a means of inducing hatred for your fellow men by trapping you in a confined space with too few of them to provide variety and too many to allow solitude.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
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.
