High Waves

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or waves:

    But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
    Assailed the monarch’s high estate;
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics—none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)