General Purpose Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words general, purpose and/or fleet:

“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)