French Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or fleet:

“Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one’s equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.”
—Georges, French novelist, critic. L’Abbé C, pt. 2, ch. 17 (1950)

“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)