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«In every mess I find a friend, / In every port a wife.»
Author: Charles Dibdin (Actor, Author, Composer, Manager) | Keywords: port
«In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.»
Author: Jonathan Aitken | Keywords: headland, port
«One can give advice comfortably from a safe port»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller (Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: comfortably, port
«It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Travel | Keywords: determines, port, ports, The Coming, voyage, voyaging
«I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: anchor, anchored, anchors, direction, drift, drifted, drifts, moving, port, ports, sail, The Wind, wind, with the wind
«It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee | Keywords: blows, port, relation, relation to, shore
«No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Goals, Travel | Keywords: addresses, port, ports, serves, voyage
«No wind favors him who has no destined port.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: destine, destined, favors, port, ports
«Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: defiance, lords, pass by, port
«O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: come into, greatly, port, seas, strike
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