The extensive list of sayings I work from when I paint. Some original, part original others are entirely quotes. For most I've done decades of serious research to some of the finest tiki bars in Florida and on the East Coast. Particularly on A1A.
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FISHING SAYINGS
Work is for people who don't know how to fish
Fish naked...show off your pole.
Jesus chose fishermen - not politicians.
A fool and his money make great fishing buddies.
Gone fishing - be back at dark:30
Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll sit on a
boat and drink all day.
Noah was obviously an amateur fisherman. Trust me, when your buddies throw you
overboard, the fish don't start biting. (Can't explain my yen for it.)
"God does not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing."
(That could also apply to boating, lying on the beach, searching for the perfect drink.)
Cortez Go-Go Boots. These boots were made for working. ( white fishing boots
favored by Cortezians. In Pine Island these are called Island Reboks.)
Cortez. Sea-no evil. Here-No evil. Speak- No evil ( unless there's a really good
crowd)
Cortez, what happens here, we talk about all week.
Cortez...Good work for Good Beer.
Cortez...Boats in yards, dogs off leashes, beer for breakfast.
Nude Beach ( ARROW) ( small text : past the red mailbox, up a little to the left
past the barking dog, behind the old farm close to the tree line, then take the
second dirt road past the old oak tree and there you are OR Beer goggles recommended.)
Star Fish Co. – the honky tonk fish shack with tiki tude.
If you’re not barefoot right now, you are overdressed.
Seas the day. ( Carpe Diem - beach style!)
Sand between the toes rubs off all the bad stuff.
Sand between the toes scours clean a weary sole.
It is eternity here -- no matter how it ends.
Paradise ain't cheap.
Life's a walk on the beach when you're drinking sunshine.
You're still the one I love after all these beers.
My love cocktail - you + Tequila + sunrise.
LOVE IS...
Happy hour next to the police station.
IRS dancing on your winning lottery ticket.
A fish hook in the eye with a beer chaser.
The sea breeze under the wings of the seagulls dive bombing your clean car.
Barefoot honest, beer drinking real.
The Captain is always right -- particularly when he's utterly wrong.
Captain's quarters -- mermaids welcome.
What happens on board, stays onboard.
what happens on the ship, stays on the ship.
what happens while fishing becomes legend.
My ship came in but my X owned the dock.
My ship came in but the IRS owned the dock.
Ménage A Trios – Two men and a boat.
My dinghy is bigger than your dinghy.
Plot course. Get there knot by knot.
BOAT – Beer on a trip.
Anchors are made to be moved.
Anchors aren’t always, they’re just for the now.
Anchors hold your place, not your life.
I may not be ship shape--but my dinghy still works.
You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails ...
Benjamin Franklin said: "A voyage at sea has many things to recommend it, but
safety is not one of them."
"My experience with engines is that if you depend on them they fail you, but if
it just doesn't matter, they serve you." -Frank Wightman
"He was now convinced that the most valuable sail on board was the diesel." -Ray
Kauffman
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." -Syrus Pubilius
"It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."
-Sir Francis Drake
"The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance." -Annie Van De Wiele
"If you can't repair it, maybe it shouldn't be on board." -Lin and Larry Pardey
"Ships are the nearest thing to dreams that hands have ever made." -Robert N.
Rose
"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." -Brooks Atkinson
"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind." -Timothy Leary
"Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and
the other was an atrocious liar." -Don Bamford
"Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him."
-Charles G. Davis
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the
realist adjusts the sails." -William A. Ward
"Not all who wander are lost." Tolkien
How can I get lost? I don't know where I'm going!
We are all HERE, because we are not all THERE.
Cruisers don't have plans, just intentions.
There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and
those who are at sea.
"He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea." -Thomas
Fuller.
"Without patience, a sailor I would never be." -Lee Allred
"The sea finds out everything you did wrong." -Francis Stokes
"He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger."
-Hammond Ines
"It's out there at sea that you are really yourself." -Vito Dumas
"Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down."
-John Masefield
"To young men contemplating a voyage I'd say go." -Joshua Slocum
"At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much." -Robin Lee Graham
"For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and
the boat made three." -Hilaire Belloc
"There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity." -Thomas Gibbons
"Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem
to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same
time both humbling and exalting." -Franciose LeGrande
"There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes." -Old Norwegian Adage
"Below 50 degrees south there is no law. Below 60 degrees south there is no
God." -Old Sailors Adage
"I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits." -Bernard Moitessier
"Boats, like whiskey, are all good." -R.D. (Pete) Culler
"A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep her in
paint and powder." -ADM. Chester Nimitz
"I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2." -Earnest K. Gann
"If you can't repair it, maybe it shouldn't be on board." -Lynn and Larry Pardey
"When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land." -Dr.
Samuel Johnson
"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do
it drunk." -Sir Francis Chichester while loading his boat with gin.
"It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."
-Sir Francis Drake
"The only way to get a good crew is to marry one." -Eric Hiscock
"The sea hates a coward." -Eugene O'Neill
"The ocean is an object of no small terror." -Edmund Burke
"The sea drives truth into a man like salt." -Hilaire Belloc
"I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea." -Alaine
Gerbault
"Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of
fear." -Buzzy Trent
"The cure for anything is saltwater — sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen
"To be successful at sea we must keep things simple." -R. D. (Pete) Culler
"Never a ship sails out of a bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway." -Roselle
Mercier Montgomery
For whatever we lose, ( Like a you or a me), It's always ourselves we find in
the sea". E.E. Cummings
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't
assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
immensity of the sea." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and
the wildest, the most urgent." D H Lawrence
"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn
to sail in high winds." Aristotle Onassis
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let
yourself indulge in vain wishes." Laurence J. Peter
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by the things that you didn't do
than the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the
safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
Mark Twain
