Famous quotes containing the words whaling and/or company:
“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)