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)

    Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)

    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.)