Active Duty Fleet

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

“The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

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