I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being “false,” “untrue,” yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.

A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!

When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the...

Die Nacht, die Stimmung auf dem Schiff und wieder dieses völlige Losgelöstsein von der gewöhnlichen Welt hatten mir jenes rauschhafte Freiheitsgefühl erweckt, das meine Droge ist.

Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship’s hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o’re the sea.” (Cutthroat’s Omen: A Crimson Dawn)

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the...

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Ships have feelings.

We all came in on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

It’s one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!… That’s a real talent

Turn over the rudder in God’s name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

And home the ships sailing send.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most...

The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden islands of freedom, free from petty concerns and the laws of...

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only...

We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a...

Gay ships are yay ships!

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

In many ways, the steamships of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had become the secular equivalent of medieval cathedrals. They were the source of endless pride to the communities and nations that built them, and...