[Chainmail]

"A ship is like a prison - with the chance of drowning"

- Samuel Johnson

[mad_as_he$$]

Jackson is/was right! No interest in cruising from me.

[Doctor Congo]

“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” At another time he claimed, “A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/miscellany/being-ship-being-jail-chance-being-drowned