“We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.”
Colin Powell
“Gone before / To that unknown and silent shore.”
Charles Lamb
“A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.”
Proverb
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”
William Shakespeare
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never”
“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.”
Nicholas Boileau
