World Sailing Speed

Famous quotes containing the words world, sailing and/or speed:

    “The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than to find fault.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “The Colonel went out sailing,
    He spoke with Turk and Jew
    With Christian and with Infidel
    For all tongues he knew.
    “O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
    And he came sailing home.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “If it be aught toward the general good,
    Set honor in one eye, and death i’th’ other,
    And I will look on both indifferently;
    For let the gods so speed me as I love
    The name of honor more than I fear death.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)