Row Boats Quotes:

Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in.

- Dana Gould

topic: Sex, Two, Row Boats

...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.

- James Patterson

topic: Row Boats, Boat, Drifting

Little boats should keep near shore

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.241

topic: Poor Richard, Row Boats

Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain.

- Daniel Topolski

source: "True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny".

topic: Pain, Levels, Rowing, Row Boats

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Fun, Romantic Love, Choices, Row Boats

I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

- Thom Yorke

source: "Song: 'Pyramid Song'". 2001.

topic: Stars, Angel, Past, Radiohead, Row Boats

A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.

- Augustus William Hare

source: Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

topic: Beautiful, Distance, Sight, Fine Day, Row Boats

When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.

- Will Rogers

topic: Children, Fall, Party, Row Boats, Delaware

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

- David Reuben

topic: Marriage, Rocks, Long, Marriage Engagement, Row Boats