Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or ships:
“Better to have a thousand friends, and not one enemy.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)