Famous quotes containing the words earth, defense and/or fleet:
“All places are alike,
And every earth is fit for burial.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had bitten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)