Active Duty Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words active, duty and/or fleet:

“I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Every subject’s duty is the King’s, but every subject’s soul
is his own.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)