Famous quotes containing the words ships and/or acquired:
“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
“Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)