The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
There can be only one Captain to a ship.
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.