Love Quotes

Today is september 19th, the International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD). ITLAPD is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers , of the United States, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.Ahoy Mate! The date was selected because it was the birthday of Summers’s ex-wife and consequently would be easy for him to remember.

I grew up reading about John Long Silver, and sang Fifteen Men on the dead men’s chest and a bottle of rum. Jack Sparrow again rekindled my old love affair with Pirates, and here on The International talk like a Pirate Day, lets have some Pirate Sayings!

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

“Dead men don’t bite”

“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.”

“It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it. ”

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