Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.- French Proverb
There are only two kinds of naval vessels - submarines, and targets. ==- Submariner's Proverb
Two captains will sink the ship. -Turkish Proverb
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.- Samuel Johnson
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.- Samuel Johnson
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.- Spike Milligan
A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.- Admiral Chester William Nimitz, in a speech before the Society of Sponsors of the U. S. Navy, 13 February 1940.
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