Famous quotes containing the words pretty, soldier and/or sailor:
“A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“A soldier is better accommodated than with a wife.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)