Century Sailing Ship

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

    “Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th 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)

    “Small pity for him!—He sailed away
    From a leaking ship in Chaleur Bay,—”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)