Lewis Francis Herreshoff quotes

“The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.”
-- Lewis Francis Herreshoff

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“It looks like frozen snot.”
-- Lewis Francis Herreshoff

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“I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.”

Source : "Alvin Martin: 'Scousers and cockneys get on. It's the mickey-taking'". Interview With Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.

“You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.”

“Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.”

“I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.”

Source : Barbara Hambly (2011). “Bride of the Rat God”, p.36, Open Road Media

“The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.”

“I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter...”

“Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it”

Source : James Truslow Adams (2017). “The Epic of America”, p.262, Routledge

“For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.”

“It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible...”

“I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com