Proverbs of the Seas

1) Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
2) Seamen learn to get to know each other during a storm.
3) The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.
4) Where there is a sea there are pirates.

5) You know who the good seamen are when the storm comes.

6) After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.

7) Each man makes his own shipwreck.
8) There is no wind that blows right for the sailor who doesn't know where the harbour is.
9) Waves will rise on silent water.
10) When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.
11) Sailors have a port in every storm.
12) A ship with two captains sinks.

13)The seaman know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore

14) Little leak will sink a great ship

15) Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst

16) A great ship asks deep waters.

17) Red sky at night, sailors delight, red sky. at morning, sailors take warning.

18) Heaven protects children, sailors and drunken men.

19) The higher the clouds, the better the weather.

20) Do not forget what it is to be a sailor because of being a captain yourself.

21) Do not judge of the ship from the land.

22) Better lose the anchor than the whole ship.

23) Every wind is against a leaky ship.

24) Many grains of sand will sink a ship.

25) Too many captains will sink the ship.

26) When the helm is gone the ship will soon be wrecked.

27) A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea

28) He would sink a ship freighted with crucifixes.

29) No matter how big the sea may be, sometimes two ships meet.

30) The water that a ship sails on is the same water that swallows it up.