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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. -- H. G. Wells
Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. -- Carl Sagan
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. -- Nicholas Monsarrat
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. -- Bob Hope
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. -- Carl Sagan
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. -- Edmund Waller
I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors. -- Doug Davidson
I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies. -- Andie MacDowell
People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. -- John Sweeney
Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two. -- Junipero Serra
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. -- Patton Oswalt
All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. -- James F. Amos
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors. -- Ray Mabus
Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking. -- Douglas Brinkley
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites. -- Tom Waits
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. -- Roald Amundsen
In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely. -- Lane Evans
Everyone in Denmark has at least two or three sailors in their family; sea travel is part of the DNA of our nation, and because of that, I'd always wanted to tell a story aboard a ship. -- Tobias Lindholm
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. -- Thomas Wolfe
Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next. -- Jonathan Nolan
I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors. -- Phil Klay
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains. -- Charles Duhigg
People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. -- Megan Fox
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less. -- Allen West
Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either. -- Ray Mabus
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life. -- Hugh Shelton
I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates who were passing by on their way to re-provision their boat. They didn't even acknowledge me - which is unheard of among sailors - and it was like looking into the eyes of a black mamba. -- Wilbur Smith
I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing. -- Roger McGuinn
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors. -- Lynn Austin
Ships are but boards, sailors but men. -- William Shakespeare
Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors. -- Maddox
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it. -- Walter Scott
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. -- Jules Verne
All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them -- Leonard Cohen
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. -- Eduardo Galeano
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. -- Janet Flanner
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. -- Ronald Reagan
Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. -- Enoch Powell
The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true. -- Liu Bei
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum. -- Kathy Acker
Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home. -- Brian Rathbone
In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!" -- Brian Blessed
The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money. -- Tom Feeney
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen. -- Thomas Hughes
I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains. -- Felix Baumgartner
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. -- Patton Oswalt
hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic... -- Van Morrison
It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals. -- Larry Craig
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. -- Jon Anderson
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money. -- Arthur Laffer
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. -- John Lubbock
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. -- William C. Brown
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague. -- Salman Rushdie
We could say they government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money. -- Ronald Reagan
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World. -- Helge Ingstad
But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art. -- Henry David Thoreau
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. -- H. L. Mencken
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. -- Diane Johnson
My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them. -- Morgan Freeman
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. -- William Shakespeare
Morning Star' is the light that many sailors would use to guide them. But it's also referenced twice in the Bible - once for Lucifer and once for Jesus. -- Pierce Brown
It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything. -- Bob Hope
We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components. -- Otto Neurath
Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering? -- Margaret Atwood
So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders. -- Henry David Thoreau
It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. -- Herman Melville
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee -- Emmylou Harris
Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack! -- Vincent Van Gogh
Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain. -- Rick Yancey
It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him. -- Lynn Austin

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