Famous quotes containing the words english and/or ships:
“In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
—Variously Ascribed.
The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)