sailor quotes

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned† A man in a jail has moreroom, better food, and commonly bettercompany.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark,16 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

No.Cost what it may I am determined to go East. The nomad'slife enthrallsme.Itsrestlessnesspursuesme: it is as much part of meas of thesailor. All parts and noneare home to me, and all arriving onlya new setting forth.

- Ella Kini Maillart
  Des Monts Ce  lestes aux Sables Rouges (translated by  John Rodder as Turkestan Solo: One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum).

Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator, Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves. The sailor tells stories of the winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier lists his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

- Sextus   1c Propertius
Elegies, bk.2, no.1, l.43^4.

Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches tigers In red weather.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'Disillusionment ofTen O'Clock'.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  'Requiem' (dated'Hy e' res, May1884'), collected in Underwoods (1887), bk.1, no.21.