Swift Boat Veterans

Famous quotes containing the words swift, boat and/or veterans:

    Yes, as my swift days near their goal,
    ‘Tis all that I implore—
    Through life and death, a chainless soul,
    With courage to endure!
    Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

    You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze and the boat sank.
    —J.P. (James Pinckney)

    My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)