| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters: These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. |
| Charles Dibdin | 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. |
| Emery Alexander Storrs | It would have been as though he were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination. |
| Robert Southey | She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze. |
| Rudyard Kipling | Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew, For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail, We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new. |
| Rudyard Kipling | Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' always steam, From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see thy Hand, O God-- Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod. |
| Thomas Kibble Hervey | Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on. |
| Thomas Kibble Hervey | Ships that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore. |
| Thomas Moore | Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity. |
| William S Gilbert | For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft-- Such a bright little, Tight little, Slight little, Light little, Trim little, slim little craft! |
| George Herbert | A great ship askes deepe waters. |
| George Herbert | The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle! |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The true ship is the ship builder. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going? |
| Samuel Johnson | Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. |
| Sir Walter Scott | And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses. |
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