Nautical Sense of Humour

Leeks: Vegetables found in boats - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Kinship: Your rich Uncle's boat - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

You're gonna need a bigger boat. - Jaws

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

Quay: Something you need to start a motor boat - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point. - Barack Obama

You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore

You'll never be as lazy as whoever names the fireplace. - Unknown

They who dive in the sea of affliction, bring up rare pearls. - Charles H. Spurgeon

I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi. - Suraj Sharma

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

Here are some names to look forward to - perhaps in the future. - David Coleman

Live in the sunshine
Swim in the sea
Drink the wild air - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip. - Groucho Marx

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. - Plato

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. - Mark Twain

If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist. - Enrico Fermi

My folks didn't come over on the Mayflower but they were here to meet the boat. - Will Rogers

Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it's tuna but it says chicken of the sea. - Jessica Simpson

She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end. - Natalia Marx

They are all discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. - Mark Twain

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. - Arnold Palmer

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking." - Hugh Downs

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

How do we persevere when we're adrift at sea, severed from wherever or whomever is our 'home'? - Lois Anderson

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Kahlil Gibran

If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. - E.B. White

You always buy familiar names, the ones you recognize; that's why the adman always claims it pays to advertise. - Unknown

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. - George Burns

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us. - Brent Staples

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

The trout enjoys the river,
The whale enjoys the sea,
And dogs love most an old lamp-post,
But you're my cup of tea. - W H Auden

Morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. - William Taylor

If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It's an important skill to develop. - Harvey Mackay

The Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi. - Tom P. Bowles

Like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea... we are far too easily pleased. - C S Lewis