|
Instantly create your own Nautical Decorating Style with these unique nautical sayings
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. HENRIK IBSEN
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. MARTIN LUTHER
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. AUGUST HARE
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. THOMAS FULLER
There is no second place, ma'am.
Britannia rules the waves, but America waives the rules.
Our crooked anchors from the prow we cast. VIRGIL
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS
...the anchor is the emblem of hope...
To paint water in all its perfection is as impossible as to paint the soul.
The boat is like a plow drawn by a winged bull.
I know who you are, but you'll have to wipe vour feet.
If there is one place in the world of Romance, it is under tropical skies in a sailing ship. ARTHUR MASON
Tomorrow once again we sail the Ocean Sea. HORACE
from Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Anchors aweigh, my boys, Anchors aweigh! Farewell to college joys, We sail at break of day. ALFRED HART MILES
Seamen love their bellies above anything else
The shouts of sailors double near the shores; They stretch their canvas, and they ply their oars. VIRGIL
This is the pleasure of life at sea, fine weather, day after day, without interruption, fair wind, and plenty of it, and homeward bound.
Oh, give me again the rover's life, the joy, the thrill, the whirl! Let me feel thee again, old sea! let me leap into thy saddle once more. Let me snuff thee up, sea breeze! and whinny in thy spray.
Who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
A compass can go wrong, the stars never. Tongan saying
Navigation is essential; life is not. Hanseatic proverb
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Let us run into a safe harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing.
Oh Lord, have mercy, Thy sea is so large And my ship is so small Breton fisherman's prayer
If you're winning, don't change what you're doing
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Behold, at last, Each tall and tapering mast Is swing into its place; Shrouds and stays Holding it firm and fast. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELL
I'd rather be sailing.
All you that would be seamen must bear a valiant heart.
How little do the landsmen know How little do the landsmen know Of what we sailors feel, When the waves do mount and winds do blow! But we have hearts of steel!
For who are so free as the sons of the waves?
Home is the sailor, home from the sea. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON from the poem 'Requiem', 1887
The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.
If you wish to study ships, you must also study the men who sail them.
For Sailors they be honest men, And they do take great pains, But Land-men and ruffling lads Do rob them of their gains. 16th centuiy Elizabethan sea song
The stormy winds did blow, And the raging seas did roar, While we poor Sailors went to the tops, And the land lubbers laid below. Chorus to 'The Mermaid', a 16th century Elizabethan sea song
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. SENECA
And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond. Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea... EMILY DICKINSON
The days passed happily with me wherever my ship sailed. JOSHUA SLOCUM
To touch that bow is to rest one's hand on the cosmic nose of things. JACK LONDON
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full. Ecclesiastes 1:7
The sea is His, for He made it. Psalms 95:5
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, which teems with things innumerable, living things both small and great. Psalms 104:25
Beyond all things is the ocean. SENECA
The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar. LORD BYRON
...nothing will compare with the early breaking of day upon the wide ocean. RICHARD HENRY DANA
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there and buries its tumultuous strength. ROBERT BROWNING
All the earth's full rivers cannot fill the sea, that drinking thirsteth still. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
To me the sea is a continual miracle
|
