~Boats & Boating~
Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.
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Believe me, my young friend,
there is nothing - absolutely nothing -
half so much worth doing as
simply messing about in boats.
(from The Wind in the Willows - by Kenneth Grahame)
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Dear God...
Be good to me...
The sea is so wide...
and my boat so small.
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Don't build a new ship out of old wood.
Don't give up the ship.
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Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
(H. W. Shaw)
God bless this ship and all who sail in her.
I'm afraid, when my ship came in, I was at the airport.
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I had to sink my yacht
to make my guests go home.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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I sure hope my ship comes in before my dock rots.
If there is no wind...row !!
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it !!
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O GOD, THY SEA IS SO GREAT,
AND THY BOAT IS SO SMALL
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Only sailors get blown off shore.
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Pink in the morning,
sailors take warning.
Pink at night, sailors delight.
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Sail away with me.
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The ocean has no compassion,
no law, no memory.
The more a man goes to sea,
the greater respect he has for it.
(Joseph Conrad)
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The person rowing the boat
seldom has time to rock it.
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There are good ships and wood ships,
but the best ships are friendships.
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This boat floats.....I hope !!
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Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
(Mark Twain)
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We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust our sails.
We can't harness the wind but we can adjust our sails.
E-mail me if you have other sayings to add to this page.
updated 4/17/09
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Please let me know if an error has been made, and I will gladly make the necessary changes asap. ~Deanie~