Nautical Sense of Humour

I need Vitamin SEA. - Unknown

Up the creek in a boat with a hole. - Archie Bunker

You're gonna need a bigger boat. - Jaws

There are plenty more fish in the sea. - English Proverb

Where there is a sea there are pirates. - Greek Proverb

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

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. - Aneurin Bevan

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

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

The magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars. - Joanne Harris

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

The landlocked sea is Greek or Roman, the boundless sea is Portuguese. - Fernando Pessoa

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

Boat: A hole in the water surrounded by wood into which one pours money - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

They call it golf because all of the other four-letter names were taken. - Ray Floyd

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing. - Ed McMahon

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

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. - Unknown

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. - Martin Luther King Jr.

I get called all these horrible names by Lindsey Graham, who I don't even know. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. - Anna Freud

Those who have one foot in the canoe and one foot in the boat are going to fall into the river. - Tuscarora Proverb

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

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

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved. - C S Lewis

The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea. - 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

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. - Jacques Cousteau

We have learned so many lessons,
Since our heads were bowed in grief,
That have kept our boat from crashing
On life's ragged, rocky reef. - Gertrude T Buckingham

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

The future has several names. For the weak it is "impossible." For the fainthearted it is "unknown." For the thoughtful and valiant it is "ideal." - Hubert H Humphrey

I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. - William F Buckley