"I'm what you call a Depression sailor"

"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South"

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes"

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company"

"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics"

"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean"

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast"

"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable"

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea"

"I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through"

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles"