Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Calm seas never made a good sailor"
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Anna Freud
Psychoanalyst
"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money."
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them."
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."
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"To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors."
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"Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors."
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"A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is."
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"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
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"All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them"
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"The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can."
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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."
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"They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor"
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"the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot."
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"When NYDJ called me and told me that Christie Brinkley was going to be on set with me I freaked out. And when I met Christie, she had a little freak out because she said that her daughter Sailor loved me so much."
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"Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep."
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"It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!"
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"A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea."
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"I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars."
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"So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders."
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"One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers."
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