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.