SHIP

Related Subjects: Navy, River, Sailor, Sea, Shipwreck, Travel, Wanderlust, Water

1. We sailors are jealous for our vessels. Abuse us if you will, but have a care for what you may say of our ships. We alone are entitled to call them bitches, wet brutes, stubborn craft, but we will stand for no such liberties from the beach.—D. W. BONE, Merchantmen-at-Arms
   

2. The ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went on lonely and swift like a small planet.—JOSEPH CONRAD, The Nigger of the Narcissus
   

3. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

4. That packet of assorted miseries which we call a Ship.—KIPLING, The First Sailor
   

5. Ships fear fire more than water.—Proverb
   

6. Great ships require deep waters.—Proverb