Famous quotes containing the words eternal, sailor and/or moon:
“Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion,
Scarce can endure delay of execution:
Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my
Soul in a moment.”
—William Cowper (17311800)
“He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It takes the moon for this. The suns a wizard
By all I tell; but sos the moon a witch.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)