Active Duty Fleet

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

“The sense of an entailed disadvantage—the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centred, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

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