Famous quotes containing the words pretty, soldier and/or sailor:
“She stripped it from her arm. I see her yet:
Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)