Torpedo Boat Destroyers

Famous quotes containing the words boat and/or destroyers:

“When the boat reaches midstream, it is too late to mend the leaks.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)