SAILOR

Related Subjects: Navy, Sea, Ship, War

1. For if bold tars are Fortune's sport,
   Still are they Fortune's care.—CHARLES DIBDIN, The Blind Sailor
   

2. The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.—EMERSON, English Traits
   

3. Your seamen are like your element, always tempestuous.—GEORGE FARQUHAR,
   Sir Harry Wildaire
   

4. Now landsmen all, whoever you may be,
   If you want to rise to the top of the tree,
   If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool,
   Be careful to be guided by this golden rule—
   Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,
   And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee!—W. S. GILBERT, H. M. S. Pinafore
   

5. Sailors should never be shy.—W. S. GILBERT, H. M. S. Pinafore
   

6. Of all the husbands on the earth,
   The sailor has the finest berth,
   For in 'is cabin he can sit
   And sail and sail—and let 'er knit.—WALLACE IRWIN, A Grain of Salt
   

7. There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.—MACAULAY, History of England
   

8. A white color is a disgrace in a sailor; he should be swarthy from the sea-water and the rays of the sun.—OVID, Art of Love
   

9. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,
   The seventh, holystone the deck and scrub the cable.—The Sailor's Catechism
   

10. Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.—SCOTT, Redgauntlet
    

11. Like a drunken sailor on a mast;
    Ready, with every nod, to tumble down
    Into the fatal bowels of the deep.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

12. A seafaring man may have a sweetheart in every port; but he should steer clear of a wife as he would avoid a quicksand.—SMOLLETT, The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves