Famous quotes containing the words open, sea and/or fleet:
“An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)
“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)