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)
“A wolf will walk a thousand miles to eat people: a dog half way to heaven will still eat dung.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)