#sail

I'm what you call a Depression sailor. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#depression #i #sailor #you

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel. ↗

— Robert Bork

#great #great deal #keel #sail #shallow

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. ↗

— Euripides

#batters #brief #god #sails #stay

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely. ↗

— Lane Evans

#allies #along #around #boldly #brave

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#before #clothes #i #i think #like

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. ↗

— William Falconer

#direction #effect #judicious #produced #sailing

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. ↗

— William Falconer

#being #circumstance #every #facility #fleet

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#book #bumped #cape #dead #desert

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#breeze #first #joyous #rustle #sails

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through. ↗

— James Cagney

#called #chorus #doing #every #fun