Pretty Soldier Sailor

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

    A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
    Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

    The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
    Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)

    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)