Famous quotes containing the words eternal, sailor and/or moon:
“The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal womanAstarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long headno intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Ive no time now, but believe me as surely as the moon will set and the sun will rise I shall kill you tomorrow night. I shall kill you even if you hide in the deepest cave of the earth. At ten oclock tomorrow night, I shall kill you.”
—R.C. Sherriff (18961975)