Famous quotes containing the words colonel and/or maxim:
“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)
“Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide—In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)