Boats Race

Famous quotes containing the words boats and/or race:

“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)