50+ Best Cruise Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Cruise is a journey on a large ship for pleasure, during which you visit several places. Profoundly inspirational cruise quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.

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Famous Cruise Quotes

A man is never lost at sea. Ernest Hemingway

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. Joshua Slocum

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. Captain Jack Sparrow

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people Garrison Keiler

For whatever we lose like you or a m  it’s always our self we find in the sea. E.E. Cummings

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Christopher Columbus

Cruising has two pleasures. One is to go out in wider water from a sheltered place. The other is to go into a shattered place from wider waters.Howard Bloomfield

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. William Shedd

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. Amelia E. Barr

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. Joshua Slocum

The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one’s imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered. Jimmy Cornell

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Rumi

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. Joshua Slocum

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out and meet it. Jonathan Winters

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

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

To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives. Carleton Mitchell

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. Zora Neale Hurston

The thing I realized these last few days is that the earth is a big place. Paul Cayard

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties  through my love for truth  and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir.

The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one’s imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered. Jimmy Cornell

Appreciate the journey, and recognize your strength. Susan Wiggs.

Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid. Robert N. Rose

Time and tide wait for no man. St. Marher

The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use. Dom Degnon

Never a ship sails out of a bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway. Roselle Mercier Montgomery.

I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea. Alaine Gerbault

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri

A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be. Aubrey de Selincourt

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

It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. Ernest K. Gann

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. Nicholas Monsarrat

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. Joshua Slocum.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Webb Chiles

It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. Sir Francis Drake

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. Henry David Thoreau

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. Thomas Fuller

It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. Sir Francis Drake, English Explorer

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

A good river is nature’s life work in song. Mark Helprin

I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. Mark Twain

I had no plans of any destination. I wish to flow like a river. Lailah Gifty Akita

I travel because seeing photos in books and brochures wasn’t good enough for me. To be there, that was everything. Wiremu Ratcliffe

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. John O’Donohue

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land and work again after a cheerful, careless voyage. Mark Twain