You must be a light unto yourself.
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale....
Victory is a thing of the will.
Live for something rather than die for nothing.
He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote...
And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about.Everyone keep warning me about sailors, I complained. Wh...
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.
The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.