Maiden Voyage April

Famous quotes containing the words maiden, voyage and/or april:

    “Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
    Here’s to the widow of fifty;
    Here’s to the flaunting extravagant queen;
    And here’s to the housewife that’s thrifty.
    Let the toast pass,—
    Drink to the lass,
    I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass.”
    —Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

    “But where is laid the sailor John
    That so many lands had known,
    Quiet lands or unquiet seas
    Where the Indians trade or Japanese?
    He never found his rest ashore,
    Moping for one voyage more.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Summer of man its sunlight and its flower,
    Spring-time of man all April in a face.”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)