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«A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.»
Author: Grace Murray Hopper (Computer programmer, Inventor) | Keywords: port, ports, ships
«How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.»
Author: Isaac Bickerstaffe (Playwright) | Keywords: Coast to Coast, Land A, port
«If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas | Keywords: captain, port, ports, preserve, ship
«Any port in a storm.»
Author: Pope Paul VI (Pope) | Keywords: port
«DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked him to take the king's head, But duty prevailed, and he took the king's bread, Instead. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: impel, impels, lavender, lavenders, port, prevailed, provoked, sternly, wroth
«And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: dragon, dung, port, The Dung Gate, viewed
«Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: aspires, brandies, brandy, claret, liquor, liquors, port
«If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: favorable, port, ports, steered, steering, steers, wind
«If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: favorable, port, ports, sailing
«He enters the port with a full sail.»
Author: Virgil (Author, Poet) | Keywords: Full Sail, port
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