Pirate Sayings 🦜🏴‍☠️☠️ in 2025

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

There is nothing like the smell of cannon fire in the morning.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean.

In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power.

Give me freedom or give me the rope. For I shall not take the shackles that subjugate the poor to uphold the rich.

If ye can’t trust a pirate, ye damn well can’t trust a merchant either.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean.  

If ye thinks he be ready to sail a beauty, ye better be willin’ to sink with her.

See you in Davie Jones’ Locker.

You may kill me but you might never insult me.

I’m sorry to see you here, but if you’d have fought like a man you needn’t hang like a dog.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

Your words surround you like fog and make you hard to see.

A pirate is a man that is weak to achieve but too strong to steal from even the greatest achiever.

A pirate is for life, not just for Christmas.

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. 

Take what you can, give nothing back

Ye can swab the poop deck, but ye can’t poop on the swab deck.