“Ce sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du vaisseau, repartit l’ermite; elles le submergent quelquefois; mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer.”
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778), French philosopher, writer
Categorie archieven: Quotes
A ship in port
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
Grace Murray Hopper (1906 – 1992), American computer scientist …
Were this world an endless pain
“Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.”
Herman Melville (1819 – 1891), Moby Dick
A single anchor
“A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.”
Epictetus (55 – 135) Greek philosopher
Oceans, fools and women
“Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.”
Spiro T. Agnew (1918 – 1996) US politician
The human heart is like a ship
“The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.”
Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
A firm anchor in nonsense
“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.”
Give a man …
“Give a man a horse he can ride,
Give a man a boat he can sail;
And his rank and wealth, his strength and health
On sea nor shore shall fail.”
James Thomson (1834 – 1882) Scottish poet, essayist
Never tell
“1. Never tell everything at once.”
Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi’s Two Great Rules of Life
Build a ship
“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”