Famous quotes containing the words eternal, sailor and/or moon:
“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no 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 (1819–1891)
“The moon will run all consciences to cover....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)