Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

“But who would rush at a benighted man,
And give him two black eyes for being blind?”
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)