Remark to an elderly gentleman who was sailing with Jackson down Chesapeake Bay in an old steamboat, and who exhibited a little fear. Life of Jackson (Parton). Vol. iii. p. 493.
“A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.”
“Get the Titanic sailing correctly before you worry about the deck chairs.”
"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text
Bridge over Troubled Water
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
“We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low.
Will you never let us go?”
Song of the Galley-Slaves http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p4/galleyslaves.html, l. 1-2 (1893).
Other works
“But don't you realize, that's where I sail.”
On the Cape Wind Project, as quoted in Cape Wind : Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound (2007) by Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb, and also in a book review of it in The New York Times (17 June 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/Sullivan2-t.html?ex=1189051200&en=f2d971ab27b37734&ei=5070
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
volume I, chapter IX: "Life at Down", page 385 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=405&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image; letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-1489 to William Darwin Fox (24 October 1852)
quoted in At Home: A Short History of Private Life (2011) by Bill Bryson
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
"It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933) (co-written with Billy Rose) - Nat King Cole version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DotEKKX0ww
