#sail

Wisdom sails with wind and time. ↗

— John Florio

#time #wind #wisdom

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. ↗

— William Golding

#must #nile #rides #sails #sea

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#caucus #crew #democracy #go #inquire

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so. ↗

— Edward Heath

#around #i #interest #lack #me

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

— Walter Scott

#exact #fewest #greatest #motive #obstacles

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. ↗

— John Locke

#depths #fathom #great #his #know

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#pain #part #sail #seas #silent

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. ↗

— Aristotle Onassis

#ever #free #high #learn #must

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ↗

— William Osler

#disease #go #patients #phenomena #sail

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#boy #cabin #earned #five #i