Famous quotes containing the words thousand ships, thousand and/or ships:
“Is she worth keeping? Why, she is a pearl
Whose price hath launched above a thousand ships.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would
teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict
themselves to sack.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And when we can with Meeter safe,
We’ll call him so, if not plain Ralph,
For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)