Famous quotes containing the words guardian, sailor and/or moon:
“Its not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. Its the one that says To whom it may concern.”
—Anonymous Belfast Resident. quoted in Guardian (London, Oct. 16, 1991)
“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)
“War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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