Ship Years

Famous quotes containing the words ship and/or years:

“The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man—and after that, praying.”
—Irish proverb.