
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
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/
Misattributed
“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Josephus Daniels, ambassador to Mexico, sent this quotation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 1, 1936, in a note of New Year greetings, with this comment: "Here is an expression from Holmes which, if it has missed you, is so good you may find a use for it in one of your 'fireside' talks". Reported in Carroll Kilpatrick, ed., Roosevelt and Daniels (1952), p. 159.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Of "Inspector Kobold", a spectre
Canto 3, "Scarmoges"
Phantasmagoria (1869)
“A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.”
Fragment xvi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
"The Fall" (1975), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)