Memorable Container Quotes

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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
John A. Shedd
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
Jacques Cousteau
"The best view comes after the hardest climb."
Unknown
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came."
John F. Kennedy
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit."
Brooks Atkinson
"The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself."
John Rousmaniere
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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
"I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea."
Alaine Gerbault
"He is the best sailor who knows when to run."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
Rabindranath Tagore
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea."
Isak Dinesen
"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk."
Sir Francis Chichester
"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"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
"It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. "
Ernest K Gann
"Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know yourself the freedom of sailing."
Unknown
"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."
Mark Twain
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"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
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"In calm water, every ship has a good captain."
Swedish Proverb
"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 great."
Carleton Mitchell
"He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in imminent danger."
Hammond Innes
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Seneca the Younger

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