“ The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. ”
- Edmund Waller- Copy
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“ The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "0 God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.". ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water. ”
- Benedict Arnold- Copy
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“ Alcoholic beverages are to New Year's as a turkey is to Thanksgiving and a jack-o'-lantern is to Halloween. It's the central iconographic image. There's not much else. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
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“ Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. - King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods. ”
- Gary Player- Copy
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“ Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
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“ The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart. ”
- Rasmus Lerdorf- Copy
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“ Scientists do their best work when they are in their early years. Writers' skills don't necessarily decay; if they can keep their interests and hopes alive (like Jack Williamson), their experience allows them greater depths to explore. ”
- James Gunn- Copy
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“ The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission… ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. ”
- Isaac Bickerstaffe- Copy
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“ The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound. ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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“ What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. ”
- David Lloyd George- Copy
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“ As the cortege wound slowly along, the queen whispered in a broken voice, Here he is, and I knew that her dry eyes were seeing beyond the coffin a little boy in a sailor suit. ”
- Lady Mabell Airlie- Copy
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