Ancient Sea Kings

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

“Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 22:28.

“If I were as I once was, the strong hoofs crushing the sand and the shells,
Coming out of the sea as the dawn comes, a chaunt of love on my lips,
Not coughing, my head on my knees, and praying, and wroth with the bells,
I would leave no saint’s head on his body from Rachlin to Bera of ships.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)