Colonel Sharp

Famous quotes containing the words colonel and/or sharp:

    The Colonel went out sailing,
    He spoke with Turk and Jew
    With Christian and with Infidel
    For all tongues he knew.
    “O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
    And he came sailing home.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
    Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)