Great Sea Faring Quotes

[Greg G.]

"Anybody that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a holiday!"

Winston Churchill, when he was Lord of the Admiralty.

Note: In the British vocabulary, "holiday" is used where we would say "vacation".

 

[DEEP SEA]

"When the ship sinks, the rats will run"

 

[uwsince79]

I wrote my name upon the sand
And trusted it would stand for aye;
But, soon, alas! the refluent sea
Had washed my feeble lines away

HORATIO ALGER JR
CARVING A NAME

 

[OKI_GI]

"Whaddya mean you forgot the footpump?" to a Zodiac owner.

 

[Greg G.]

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,
With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

From a 1901 Broadway musical. Inspired by quatrain in Stevenson's Treasure Island. Reportedly, "Dead Man's Chest" was a Caribbean island rendezvous of buccaneers and smugglers.

 

[Mako Mark]

we'll hold hands and watch the sunrise from the bottom of the sea. Jimi Hendrix.

(always reminds me of dawn dives out of Cairns)

 

[DennisS]

"Nice? It's the ONLY thing,' said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. `Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING--absolute nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing,' he went on dreamily: `messing--about--in--boats;"
Wind in the willows

"Tonnage counts"
Unknown

 

[Charlie99]

"All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." John Masefield



"He who has the tons has the right-of-way." Informal OOD motto on an 11,000 ton cruiser. Not in effect in the vicinity of aircraft carriers or supertankers.

 

[miketsp]

From Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

"Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends."

"A man is never lost at sea..."

 

[miketsp]

"The sea is the universal sewer"
Jacques Cousteau