Memorable Small Boat Sailing Quotes

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"There is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit."
Brooks Atkinson
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
Jacques Cousteau
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Anyone who has to justify sailing is unworthy of the sea."
Bernard Moitessier
"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."
John Muir
"The days that make us happy make us wise."
John Masefield
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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
John A. Shedd
"To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is so rewarding."
Carleton Mitchell
"Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, risk; but it's also peace and tranquility."
Laura Dekker
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."
Isak Dinesen
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came."
John F. Kennedy
"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."
Sir Francis Drake
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too"
Vincent van Gogh
"When you are on the ground, you are just one of a million grains of sand. When you go by water, you see a totally different world."
Gertrude Ederle
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."
John Masefield, Sea Fever
"At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much."
Robin Lee Graham
"In calm water, every ship has a good captain."
Swedish Proverb
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of his course, and that man I hold to be the wisest whose private affairs require least attention."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
"There's nothing more restful than a quiet night at sea. You feel the world is yours."
Humphrey Bogart
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"Sailing takes mind, body and soul. It's a mental exercise as much as it is physical."
Dennis Conner
"Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as solid common sense."
George Matthew Adams
"The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself."
John Rousmaniere
"I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea."
Alaine Gerbault

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