Rear Rudder

Famous quotes containing the words rear and/or rudder:

    It is not those who till the fields who eat fine rice, nor those who rear the silkworms who wear fine silks.
    Chinese proverb.

    Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
    A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
    That frequently happens in tropical climes
    When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)