Famous quotes containing the words pretty, soldier and/or sailor:
“It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But its not, its a visa, and it runs out fast.”
—Julie Burchill (b. 1960)
“Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
And used to wars alarms;
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
So he laid down his arms.”
—Thomas Hood (17991845)
“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)