Pretty Soldier Sailor

Famous quotes containing the words pretty, soldier and/or sailor:

    Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you’ll be able
    Very soon not even to cry pretty
    And so be delivered entirely from humanity
    This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
    Stevie Smith (1902–1971)

    One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
    Edwin, Sir Arnold (1832–1904)

    The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no 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 (1819–1891)