Famous quotes containing the words rear, admiral and/or sir:
“You do not come dramatically, with dragons
That rear up with my life between their paws”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
—Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)