Yacht Quotes:

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

- J. P. Morgan

topic: Upkeep, Annuals, Yacht

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

- Jimmy Cannon

source: Quoted in N.Y. Times, 29 June 1958.

topic: Yankees, Yacht, Yankees Baseball

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

- Paul Getty

topic: Outstanding, Yacht, Symbols, Status Symbol

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

- Elon Musk

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Want, Planes, Yacht

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.186, Dial Press

topic: Cheerful, Reason, Yacht

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Sailboat, Change Growth

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

- David Lee Roth

topic: Happiness, Money, Pull Ups, Yacht

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

- Brooks Atkinson

topic: Land, Boat, Nautical, Land And Sea, Sailboat

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

- Francis Drake

topic: Sea, Boat, Distasteful, Mariners, Maritime

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

- Jimmy Buffett

topic: Ocean, Soul, Nautical, Sailing And The Sea, Boats And Sailing

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Men, Feet, Boredom, Dying Of Boredom, Yacht

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Mariners, Navigate

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2016). “White Jacket”, p.292, Herman Melville

topic: Men, Sailing, Nautical, Yacht

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

- Edward Gibbon

source: "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Mariners, Nautical

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

- Robin Lee Graham

topic: Sea, Littles, Needs, Mariners, Maritime

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

topic: Sailing, Retreat, Cabins, Mariners, Sailboat

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

- Anita Loos

topic: Girl, Doe, Boards, Yacht

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Sea, Boat, Enticing, Mariners, Ocean Sea

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

- John Masefield

topic: Men, Ships, Boat, Nautical, Looking Down

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

- Tristan Jones

topic: Ocean, Crafts, Boat, Boats And Sailing, Yacht

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Character, Men, Sailing, Yacht

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

- Chester W. Nimitz

source: 1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.

topic: Peace, War, Sea, Sailboat, Seamen

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

- Jimmy Buffett

topic: Discovery, Land, Water, Nautical, Land And Sea

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

- Joshua Slocum

source: Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

topic: Men, Voyages, Boat, Nautical, Sailboat

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

- Francis Chichester

topic: Drunk, World, Sailor, Mariners, Navigate

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

- Robinson Jeffers

topic: Bird, Elements, Slim, Seagull, Yacht

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Finding The One, Car, Buying, Finding Myself, Greatest Pleasures

At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

- Milton Berle

topic: Christmas, Real, Saws, Yacht

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

- David A. Siegel

topic: Islands, Tree, Boat, Palm Trees, Yacht

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

- John Masefield

source: John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

topic: Lonely, Stars, Sea, Captain Kirk, Mariners

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

- Charlie Cook

topic: Sight, Sea, Forever, Lost At Sea, Sailing And The Sea

There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

- Errol Flynn

topic: Brother, Lying, Sea, Mariners, Sailboat

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Ocean, Mean, White, Yacht

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Jobs, Bmw, Tennis, Sixth Grade, Tennis Courts

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Lying, Moving, Nautical, Sailboat

From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

- Mordechai Vanunu

source: "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

topic: Sea, People, Soldier, Commandos, Yacht

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

- Christine O'Donnell

source: "O'Donnell hits the national stage" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 17, 2010.

topic: Jobs, Worry, Car, Student Loan, Yacht

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

- Kenneth Grahame

source: TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

topic: Witty, Sailing, Half, Mariners, Wind In The Willows

I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!

- Louis Auchincloss

topic: School, Thinking, Long, Yacht, Nouveau Riche

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

- Jenson Button

topic: Running, Fun, Regret, Yacht, Don't Regret

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Islands, Buying, Enough, Yacht

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.

- Stelios Haji-Ioannou

topic: Girlfriend, Greek, Ships, Onassis, Yacht

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

topic: Fun, Party, Home, Prima Donnas, Yacht

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

- Vanilla Ice

topic: Car, House, Finding Happiness, Yacht

I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.

- Stephen LaBerge

topic: Taste, Research, Equipment, Yacht

Whenever I'm hired to do appearances I always get to take one or two friends with me. I'm away so much I'd get lonely if I didn't. My BBF would get to go jet-setting with me to amazing parties too, like the ones on P Diddy's yacht. Apart from me, he throws the best parties – they're so A-list.

- Paris Hilton

topic: Lonely, Party, Two Friends, Best Party, Yacht

After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.

- Tracy Letts

topic: Writing, August, Play, Steppenwolf, Yacht

Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Pay, Plastic, Plastic Surgery, Money And Happiness, Money Cant Buy Happiness

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

- Richard Branson

topic: Life, People, Balance, Philanthropic, Philanthropy Inspiration

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

- Anne Sexton

source: Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

topic: Nurse, Watches, Growing, Steering, Yacht

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

- Chad Harbach

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Men, Telescopes, Want, Yacht