Thousand Ships

Famous quotes containing the words thousand ships, thousand and/or ships:

    Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
    And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
    Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

    A fair lady’s smile is worth more than a thousand ounces of gold.
    Chinese proverb.

    Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
    London has swept about you this score years
    And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
    Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
    Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)