Top 202 Sailor Quotes & Sayings

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

It is part of a sailor's life to die well.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.

Calm seas never made a good sailor

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.

I was a Southern California boy raised on rap music and cussed like a sailor.

'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married...

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

I swear like a sailor.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

Even someday when we disappear... ...and new Sailor Senshis are born... Sailor Moon, you will always be Invincible. The most beautiful shining star.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

I've been a tough sailor, a foppish-type landscape gardener, a French villain, a circus strongman.

I have the mouth of a sailor.

I'm an avid sailor, and my first time exploring the Dalmatian Coast and the Croatian islands was very special.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.