Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.