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Trim
July 30, 2008
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”.
– William Arthur Ward
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Worth Doing
July 3, 2008
There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
– Kenneth Grahame
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Now Comes Good Sailing
May 12, 2008
On this day in 1862, Henry David Thoreau died of tuberculosis.
His last clear words were: “Now comes good sailing…”
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Staring at the Sea
April 20, 2008
Who is staring at the sea, is already sailing a little.”
– Paul Carvel
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Tides
April 13, 2008
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
– Shakespeare, Julius Caesar IV, iii, 217
