To set up a sail to every wind . [ Proverb ]
Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great. [ Longfellow ]
On the sea sail, on the land settle. [ Proverb ]
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. [ Proverb ]
As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port - heaven -
Friend, what years could us divide? [ D. M. Mulock ]
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but passion is the gale. [ Pope ]
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. [ William Shakespeare ]
Sail, quoth the king, hold saith the wind. [ Proverb ]
We sail the sea of life; a calm one finds.
And one a tempest; and, the voyage o'er,
Death is the quiet haven of us all. [ Wordsworth ]
A little ship needs not but a little sail. [ Proverb ]
As the wind blows, you must set your sail. [ Proverb ]
Make not your sail too big for the ballast. [ Proverb ]
When you are at sea, sail; when at land, settle. [ Proverb ]
A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.
Every ship is a romantic object except that we sail in. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]
The wind is not in your debt, though it fills not your sail. [ Proverb ]
It is as hard a thing as to sail over the sea in an egg-shell. [ Proverb ]
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. [ Hare ]
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. [ Proverb ]
If you sail with a bad wind, you need to understand tacking about well. [ Proverb ]
He that will not sail till he have a full fair wind, will lose many a voyage. [ Proverb ]
Codes are treacherous seas in which the poor barks of smugglers perish, while big corsairs traverse them under full sail. [ E. Souvestre ]
Man is the will and woman is the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. [ Ben Jonson ]
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder. [ Emerson ]
Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move, as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. [ Colton ]