Century Sailing Ship

Famous quotes containing the words century, sailing and/or ship:

    Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.
    Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

    I saw three ships come sailing by,
    Come sailing by, come sailing by,
    I saw three ships come sailing by,
    On Christmas Day in the morning.
    —Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

    Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)

    I saw a ship a-sailing,
    A-sailing on the sea,
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 1–2)