Sea Battle Tomorrow

Famous quotes containing the words sea, battle and/or tomorrow:

    The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
    Treating alike its dead and its living,
    Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

    One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    Just as petals fall from drying garlands, which you can see aimlessly swimming in wine-bowls are we lovers, who now puff up our chests, but perhaps tomorrow the fateful day will shut us down.
    Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)