Famous quotes containing the words sailor and/or stars:
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long headno 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 (18191891)
“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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