Lord High

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or high:

    “As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing, never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)