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«The lass that loves a sailor.»
Author: Charles Dibdin (Actor, Author, Composer, Manager) | Keywords: lass, lasses, sailor
«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»
Author: Wallace Irwin (Writer) | About: Husbands | Keywords: berth, berths, cabin, cabins, finest, husbands, knit, knits, knitted, knitting, sailor, The Cabin, The Finest
«A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Cute love, Love | Keywords: sailor, The Face of
«It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | Keywords: depths, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, length, ocean, sailor
«He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | About: Theory | Keywords: boarded, boarding, boards, Board of, cast, cast about, cast on, compass, compasses, compassing, practice, rudder, sailor, ship, theory
«He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Adversity, Belief, Overcoming | Keywords: fewest, motive power, sailor, steer
«The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: sailor
«No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: contrivance, contrivances, drowned, jail, sailor
«Here, said she, / Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: card, drowned, Phoenician, Phoenicians, sailor
«They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Justice | Keywords: Noah, sailor
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