John Masefield Quotes

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

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

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic jams and minor quibbles with my husband Daniel pale in comparison with the worries that were faced on the home front and battlefield during the Second World War.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

Sailing is in the same vein as horse riding. There's a beauty to it; it's an elegant sport. You have to employ your intelligence. It's technical, but you also have to take into account the natural elements - the wind, the water, the weather.

I have been a lover of the sea ever since I can remember.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

I loved being at sea: the sights, the sounds, the food, the sunshine, the people, and the work.

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.