Signature lines

[Captain Smollett]

I've been quoting this all over the 'Net (including Tuesday's chat :)  ):

Satisfaction is wanting what you already have.

Man, what a great line.  Now I should be able to remember who to credit it to.  (sorry, I've just been saying "as seen on sailfar.net).

[s/v Faith]

I saw Tim's signature on his Classic Plastic's forum

It's not how many ideas you have...it's how many you make happen.

I like that.  ;D

[Frank]

 I was cleaning out old e-mails and came across this.I may well have stolen it here to send to a friend...if so..credit (and grog) to who ever posted it 1st.... but figure it is so good it's worthy of a possible re-post
                 
"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy." - Eric Hoffer
  "Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of
life, and the labors of life reduce themselves." - Edwin Way Teale
  "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo DaVinci
  "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
  violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in
  the opposite direction." - E.F. Schumacker

   "We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale
  down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it." -
  Donald Horban
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the
  necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993

"You know you have reached perfection of design not when you have nothing
  more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." - Winston Churchill

[s/v Faith]

Good stuff Frank. 

  I had not heard this one before;

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." - Winston Churchill

[Pappy Jack]

 Frank,

Words to live by.  Here's a simple grog fer ya ;D ;D ;D.

Fair winds,

Pappy Jack

[Frank]

Just a quick ramble. I know and have delt with a lot of people in business over the years. In conversations..."ALL" reflect back at their happiest times being starting out. There was 'the challenge', but the rest of their life was very uncomplicated.There was no extra money to buy 'stuff'. Their time off was spent doing simple things that their meager funds allowed.As their business's grew..so did their responsibilities and their pocessions.Pocessioons grew...spare time diminished...often to the point of affording the pocessions...but not the time to use them.Ultimately..the pocessions owned them. ALL wish for a return to a 'simpler life' with more 'time' and less worries. In the end...thats all we really have is time.
      I truely respect the Pardey's...not just for their sailing accomplishments, but more so for the concious choices they have made in their lives to NOT get too caught up in the material world...but to truely 'experience the world'.Their cruises have been open ended, unplanned and with lots of time to get to know other cultures along the way.Wealth and pocessions were'nt the concern.
       In the end...who is 'wealthier' ? 

Quote from: stardust/eric
if you get to do with your boat what I did with mine, that cant be replaced by all the money in the world

[Shipscarver]

It may well be an exercise in the egocentric but when a huge power-polluter churns by with once a month users aboard, I often think of a line from,

Fuller:

. . . nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.

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[s/v Faith]

Just saw this one;

I prefer a sailboat to a motorboat, and it is my belief that boat sailing is a finer, more difficult, and sturdier art than running a motor.
--- Jack London

[Tim]

Just saw this one;

I prefer a sailboat to a motorboat, and it is my belief that boat sailing is a finer, more difficult, and sturdier art than running a motor.
--- Jack London

And here's a shot of the "Snark"

[4runner]

No matter how tough of a situation you think you're in.....just imagine.....

"what would Ernest Shackleton do?"

He was the ultimate small boat voyager!

[s/v Faith]

Too true;

"Be careful who you talk to about your sailing plans. Those who have abandoned their dreams will try to destroy yours."

--Anon

[Pappy Jack]

Faith,

I know what you mean. I told a few people about "The Scoot" and that I was planning to go on it. One said I should be on the look out for pirates(she was serious). I showed a chart to another. He noticed how deep the ocean is and asked,"aren't you afraid of deep water?". I said I was only conserened about the top 6' or so ::). And on it goes. If the nay sayers can talk you out of something you weren't probably motivated enough in the first place.

Fair winds,

Pappy Jack

[Bill NH]

"The years thunder by.  The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience.  Before you know it the tomb is sealed.  Which shall it be, bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?"

Sterling Hayden (a great schoonerman long before he started acting)

[Tim]

"Wind is to us what money is to life on shore."

[nowell]

Not really small boat related, but one that has stuck with me since college. Found it written on a coffee stained napkin

"Love may not make the world go 'round, but its keeps your mind off the nausea caused by its spinning!"

[Joe Pyrat]

Found this written inside a book of matches back in the 60's...

You only have two problems in life.
Are you sick or are you well?

If you are well you don't have any problems.
If you are sick you only have two problems.
Are you going to live or are you going to die?

If you are going to live you don't have any problems.
If you are going to die you only have two problems.
Are you going to heaven or heck?

If you are going to heaven you don't have any problems.
If you are going to heck you won't have time to have any problems,
you'll be too busy shaking hands with all your old friends.

[s/v Faith]

Seen elsewhere;

 

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot

[fullkeeldan]

Seen elsewhere;

 

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot

This one I totally dig

[Captain Smollett]

Not a signature line, but I saw this quote today on a fishing forum.  The quote came from an older fisherman that said it to the poster when he was about 10 years old.

"When you learn from someone else, that knowledge does not belong to you, it belongs to the next person that needs it."

[s/v Faith]

Just saw this on the Classic Plastic forum;

"The more you know, the less you need."
Yvon Chouinard

;D