All Quotes By Tag: Peter-benchley

“Life’s full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else […] In the next few days, you’ll have more chances to hurt yourself than most men get in a lifetime. It’s learning things and doing things right that make it worthwhile, make a man easy with himself. When I was young, nobody could tell me anything. I knew it all. It took a lot of mistakes to teach me that I didn’t know goose shit from tapioca.”

“That’s the only hitch in learning: it’s humbling. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Anyway, all that’s a long way around saying that it’s crazy to do things just to prove you can do ’em. The more you learn, the more you’ll find yourself doing things you never thought you could do in a million years.”

“You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know.”