The Navy Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, the floating bulwark of our island.
Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) English jurist
In this country it’s a good thing to shoot an admiral now and then to encourage the others.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author of England
Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman
We sailors get money like horses, and spend it like asses.
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) Scottish novelist, surgeon
He was begotten in the galley and born under a gun. Every hair was a rope yarn, every finger a fish-hook, every tooth a marline-spike, and his blood right good Stockholm tar.
Naval epitaph
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman … I would not know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) English navigator
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlmen were not seamen.
Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian
A ship of war, a wooden world fabricated by the frail hand of man, the great bridge of the ocean, conveying to all habitable places death, pox and drunkenness.
Ned Ward (1667-1731) English humorous writer
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.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
There is nothing— absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) British essayist, writer of children’s books
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1583) English navigator (drowned at sea)
