Commander Fleet Air

Famous quotes containing the words commander, fleet and/or air:

    “A commander in the field must sometimes go against the king’s orders.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
    For so appears this fleet majestical.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Only if loves fire with the breath
    Of life be kindled, I doubt,
    With our last air ‘twill be breath’d out,
    And quenched with the cold of death.”
    —Edward Herbert (1583–1648)