# folkloresunday art sailor quote proverb

Sailors have a particular abhorrence of those who randomly whistle. Whistling, you see, calls up the wind - and potentially a storm. Do it only in a dead calm, and then at your peril. (by George Dmitriev)

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2023-02-19

This beautiful, moody painting is by an unknown artist of remarkable talent. If you know who they are, please reply.

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2022-12-02

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better ~ Sir Francis Drake (P. Loutherbourg's painting of Drake and the English fleet defeating the Spanish Armada)

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2022-08-21

You cannot discover new oceans, unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore ~ sailor's proverb (painting by Frederick Waugh)

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2022-08-07

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity ~ Thomas Gibbons (Shipwreck on the North Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky)

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2022-07-24