Notable Quotes

Notable Maritime Quotes

Biblical Views

Measurement

"Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight, or volume. Your scales and weights must be accurate. Your containers for measuring dry materials or liquids must be accurate. I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:35-37

Demurrage

“Withhold not (payment) from the owners…to whom it is due when it is in the power of thine hand to pay it.” Proverbs 3:27

"They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders."

Psalm 107:23-32

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6

"A century ago, petroleum -- what we call oil -- was just an obscure commodity;
today it is almost as vital to human existence as water."

James Buchan

“A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.”

Thucydides – 450 BC

“Everyone knows there is no oil in Texas and Louisiana and the only petroleum of any marketable value is located in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.”

– Paraphrased response from the experts at Standard Oil when approached by a group of potential Texas wildcatters for them to finance an exploratory drilling project in Beaumont in 1900. –

(The proposal was rejected and the wildcatters found other financing and a few months later drilled the first “gusher” ever just outside of Beaumont, Texas, transforming Texas forever.)