Proverbs and Sayings on Boating and Water » Yachts & Boats

Run away from the water which does not make a noise and does not babble (Armenian).
To draw water in a sieve.
To fish in troubled waters.
Without the water one can't sail even a good boat (Mongolian).
Too much water drowned the miller.
We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
Blood is thicker than water.

Look carefully: the sea foam is not a beer (German).
Oil and water don't mix.
Still waters run deep.
A great ship asks deep waters.
As welcome as water in one's shoes. Proverbs and Sayings on Boating and Water

Beware of a silent dog and still water.
Every miller draws water to his own mill.
There are no safe fords in unknown waters (British).
He carries fire in one hand and water in the other.
Salt water and absence wash away love.
Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.
There's always more fish in the sea.
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
The closer to the sea the more grief it is.
Sometimes even water comes as a mountain.
He that got into the water wouldn't got out dry (Georgian).
Splashes are unavoidable at sea (Finnish).
A lot of roads is at sea.
There's nothing to hold on at the sea (German warning).
One marine at sea will never be forgotten.
Reflection is not seen in the turoid water (Italian, French).
It is good fishing in troubled waters.
A man would climb even an altar in a flood (Vietnamese).
Water is a master of everything, even fire is afraid of water.
Water and fire are good servants, but bad sovereigns (British).
Water goes down, reefs go up.
Water flows downward, a man aims upward (Chinese).
Water takes from one and gives to another (Ukrainian).
Water proverb - boating saying

Water is never tired (Finnish).
Water is enough for a flood, but try to have a drink of it (Ukrainian).
Time and sea flow wait nobody (British).
All of roads lead and all of rivers run to the sea.
What can a drop do where the sea is? (Azerbaijan)
Woe is when a sea makes noise.
Even if a sea is foam, it will not get dirty.
Even a sea loves a rain.
The farther at sea, the more woe.
There's no lid for a sea (Turkish).
If a sea is burning, what water will extinguish the fire?
To live at sea and not to become salted? (Indonesian)
It's good to contemplate a sea from a harbour (Italian).
A sea would spill if it doesn't have shores (Finnish).
Even a sea consists of small drops (Abkhazian).
Even a sea has a bottom (Lettish).
It's possible to scoop out a sea bucket by bucket (Indonesian). Boating proverb - water saying

Even quiet water undermines the banks.
Every sea storms in its own way.
What sea does not stink of the fish? (Lithuanian).
When a wave is breaking, bend your head (Arabian).
A sea is beautiful from a shore.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
He that was not at the sea, that didn't pray god totally.
He who lives on an island, must be friends with a sea.
A sea feeds a lot of people.
He can't cross a sea with woe.
He that was at sea, don't be afraid of a puddle.
A boat sails by, a bank stays.
Shallow water makes more noise (Japanese).
Sea is grief, but without a sea its doubled.
Sea is like a woman, may always trick you (Azerbaijani).
Sea is like a padishah, obeys nobody (Turkish).
Sea loves some, and destroys others.
Sea loves bold and skilful.
Sea doesn't stand lie, doesn't like boasting.
Sea is large because the shallow rivers it doesn't scorn (Japanese).
A sea is the fishing field.
The sea loves a strong one, and destroys a powerless one.
Sea is deep both when it's calm and in a gale (British).
Praise the sea, but hold to the earth (French). Water proverb - boating saying

Sea is like grief, shores can't be seen.
Sea what it wants, seaman what he can.
Sea doesn't like to joke.
The wash can't be stopped with a hand (Nepalese).
Seas don't submit even to kings (British). - According to an ancient legend king Kanut was soused with a wave. Infuriated Kanut ordered a wave to stop, but it soused him for the second time. The king had nothing to do but to step back from the water.
Seas separate lands, but connect peoples.
At hight water stones emerge (Indonesian).
At water feet are weak.
A lock can't be hung up on the flowing water (Turkish).
Don't believe stillness, the sea is still while you stand on shore!
He can't dry up a sea with a sponge, bite a moon with the teeth (French).
Not a sea sinks ships, but the winds (Lithuanian, Russian).
boating proverb - sea saying

It's not necessary to drink the whole sea to learn that the water is salty (Korean).
There is no smoke without fire, there are no seas without fish (Vietnamese).
Every sea can be sailed across (Chinese).
The fire is a grief and the water is a grief, however there's no worse grief where's neither fire nor water.
A sea will not be spilled by the storm, becoming a puddle.
One lobster will not make the sea cramped (Vietnamese).
Salt water doesn't make you catch a cold (British).
Everybody is equal before the sea.
By sea the path is straighter, overland is easier (Finland).
A stream, that can take me away, is more frightful than the sea (Azerbaijani).
A salient pile is hit with all waves (Japanese).
A flow will not run off the course (British).
The spilled water can't be gathered.
The sky seems small next to the sea.
An ocean can't be understand from the shore.
A dog will not make the sea dirty (Azerbaijani).
If sinking, than in a sea, but not in a nasty puddle.
That disappeared what had fallen into a sea.
Praise sea, but live overland (British, German).
Sea is good from the shore, and a shore from the sea.
Though the sea is large, the water can't escape.