Famous quotes containing the words coast, guard and/or company:
“It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Attending upon a prince is as dangerous as keeping company with a tiger.”
—Chinese proverb.
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