Famous quotes containing the words ship and/or missile:
“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.... A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)