What is Your Favorite Quote?

[Mandurah]

Don't motivate idiots. They just do stupid things faster!

[carstenb]

I spent most of my money on booze, broads and boats. The rest I wasted.

Joe Bravo

[dw5055]

"A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams".

[Teknav]

Two favorites:

1) If someone has a problem, don't make it yours!
2) Don't make any waves! The world is a big ocean, and you're floating in the smallest canoe.

Mauritz
Going to behave now!

[Pete7]

"The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligation to follow it if they did."

-Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov, father of the Russian blue water navy

[Grasshay]

From the movie men in black:

A person is smart. People are dumb.
Everything they've ever "known" has been
proven to be wrong. A thousand years ago
everybody knew as a fact, that the earth
was the center of the universe. Five
hundred years ago, they knew it was flat.
Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans
were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know
tomorrow. Tommy Lee Jones-MIB

[Stu Jackson]

Why not just read more posts, then you'll get a basketful of quotes.


"There is no problem so great it can't be solved."

[TOM]

I can tell you where I'll be ,or when I'll be there but i can't tell ya both.

Think of this whilst making plans to have friends on board.

[Steel sails]

If it floats, flies or f*#ks - RENT IT!
Haven't followed that advice and "bought" all 3
Regards
Paul

[Sand crab]

"A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into"

[Travelnik]

"I want to hurt you, just to hear you screaming my name!" - Alice Cooper


"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!" - The French Ka-niggits (Monty Python)


"If you love me, you'll let me eat your brains!" - Freddy (Return of the Living Dead)


"Go ahead, make my day!" - Clint Eastwood

[svmariane]

Originally Posted by mcerdos

Please share your favorite boat quotation.

"Only those associated with the sea can appreciate Cook..."
Adm. Horatio Nelson

When I was younger I'd thought this referred to Capt. James Cook and Cook's achievements on his three major Pacific voyages. Reading of Endeavour and Resolution's explorations helped me put to sea, with the eventual goal (now realized) of sailing my own vessel through the South Seas.

Now, older and wiser, I suspect that Nelson maybe, possibly, (tongue-in-cheek and in an ad hominem way) referred to THE cook aboard ship.
A well fed crew is a happy crew. Cold beer, please!

Recommended reading for any cruisers heading for, or out in, Pacific waters...

"Blue Latitudes" subtitled:
"Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before"
by Tony Horwitz

[Travelnik]

Wasn't Captain Cook the one who said, "Hey guys, these Sandwich Islanders are friendly! They want to have us over for dinner!"

[svmariane]

Originally Posted by Travelnik

Wasn't Captain Cook the one who said, "Hey guys, these Sandwich Islanders are friendly! They want to have us over for dinner!"

That would be the guy....

[svmariane]

(This is a bit cleaned up from the original....)

"Have you noticed that more things get done on the boat
When we are out of internet range?"

My wife... 3 mins ago.
And.......................................... I'm out'a here....