Wood Ships Quotes & Sayings

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome. — William Bligh

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash. — Henry Ward Beecher

Between 1803 and 1812 Britain and France and their allies seized nearly fifteen hundred American ships, with Britain taking 917 to France's 558. — Gordon S. Wood

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. — Aristotle.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old. — Alice Walker

You know you're old when the president is younger than you. — Steve Kangas

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time. — Michael Robotham

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. — Edgar Allan Poe

I am a bit of a daydreamer. — Matt Lucas

There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be. — Janice Thompson

Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition. — Frank Herbert

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable. — Wess Stafford