"With
boats it is different [than with a building]. They can't do without people."
- H. M. van den Brink
"Seamanship
is an art like any other; it is not something which can be picked up in one's
spare time, indeed, it leaves no leisure for anything else."
-
Pericles
"Time
passes, and sails fallen limp await the tremor of a new breeze."
– Pindar
"[The
ocean will] kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know
where you were when you died."
- Justin
Scott
"I
pretended to be someone that I wanted to be and I finally became that
person.
Or he became me."
-- Cary Grant
"He
was utterly without that didactic pedantry which yachting has a fatal tendency
to engender in men who profess
it."
- Erskine Childers
"Those
who would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for pastime."
- 18th C
aphorism
"Life
is the reciprocal of opportunities let go by."
- Richard T. Conroy
"Long
voyages are long consumptions,
And
ships are carts for executions."
- John Donne
"I
am not really a Laser sailor; I just play one on television." – John
Kirsch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IwQyK2QbR0
"[S]adness
is just another word for not enough coffee."
- Scott Adams
