ship quotes

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

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… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.