If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen. Dashiell Hammett
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. Roald Amundsen
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe
Calm seas make sorry sailors. Mexican Proverb
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. African Proverb
Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. German Proverb