Famous quotes containing the words guardian, sailor and/or moon:
“That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“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)
“Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?
Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
List to the yarn, as my grandmothers father the sailor told it to
me.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
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