My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing.

Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.

You know how sailors love to create mystery where there is none.

While many a lovely ship below sailed by On unknown errand, kempt and leisurely; And after each, oh, after each, my heart Fled forth, as, watching from the Downs apart, I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide That might befall their beauty and their pride…

In this boat we were in the habit of going on some of the maddest freaks in the world.

If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.

There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing. The persecutions buffeting the Church are like this.

To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah, —to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
My senses have been stripped
My hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wandering
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it.

The image of the lighted ship sliding under the waves, while the band carried on regardless, captured the public’s imagination.

I always feel nostalgic when I disembark (off a ship). It's not that I don't like land. I just love being at sea.