USS de Soto 1859/return To Commercial Service 1868-70

Famous quotes containing the words return, commercial and/or service:

    A tree may grow a thousand feet tall, but its leaves will return to its roots.
    Chinese proverb.

    It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    You had to face your ends when young
    ‘Twas wine or women, or some curse
    But never made a poorer song
    That you might have a heavier purse,
    Nor gave loud service to a cause
    That you might have a troop of friends.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)