“Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles,
But never came to shore.”
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859) British poet and critic
The Devil's Progress (1849)
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.”
The Old Ships (l. 1)
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John Paul Jones (1747–1792) American naval officer
Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Opening lines
Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book I. Preparation and Departure
Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
This saying appears to be due to John Augustus Shedd; it was quoted in "Grace Hopper : The Youthful Teacher of Us All" by Henry S. Tropp in Abacus Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Fall 1984) ISSN 0724-6722 . She did repeat this saying on multiple occasions, but she called it "a motto that has stuck with me" and did not claim coinage. Additional variations and citations may be found at Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/09/safe-harbor/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
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) <br class="br">quoted in At Home: A Short History of Private Life (2011) by Bill Bryson <br class="br">The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
"A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
