Captain/ships

Famous quotes containing the words captain and/or ships:

    “The captain was a duck
    With a packet on his back,
    And when the ship began to move
    The captain said, Quack! Quack!”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 13–16)

    “I saw three ships go sailing by,
    Over the sea, the lifting sea....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)