Famous quotes containing the words french, frigate and/or service:
“In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content,
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)
“There is no Frigate like a Book”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)