| Author |
Quotes |
| Arthur Murphy | Thus far we run before the wind. |
| Ben Jonson | Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. |
| Charles Dibdin | For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. |
| Charles Dibdin | There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. |
| Charles Mackay | Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. |
| Edward Gibbon | The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. |
| Erasmus Darwin | Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. |
| George Canning | Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. |
| George Chapman | And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths, In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass, To put a girdle round about the world. |
| Martyn Parker | Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas. |
| Martyn Parker | A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill! Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore now! |
| Matthew Green | Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale. |
| Matthew Green | Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. |
| Ovidius Naso | We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. |
| Plutarch | Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves? |
| Robert Herrick | What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before. |
| Thomas Haynes Bayly | O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep. |
| William S Gilbert | Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite And the crew of the captain's gig. |
| John Dryden | Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands. |
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