Ahoy! Pirates!

Ahoy, har be some famous Sayin' about us the pirates, shiver me timbers!

“Bring me one noggin of rum, now, won’t you, matey.”

“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

“Excuse me, madam, would you please be so kind as to bring me a spot of rum? I would like to have a drink.”

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”

“Where there is a sea there are pirates”

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates”

“It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.”


Argh! Shiver me timbers! Orlsend