Famous quotes containing the words colonel and/or washington:
“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)
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)