Ancient Sea Kings

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, sea and/or kings:

    “When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning—an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “It breaks his heart that kings must murder still,
    That all his hours of travail here for men
    Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace
    That he may sleep upon his hill again?”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)