“Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?”
Source: The Lost Colony
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Irish author of children's books 1965Related quotes

“Dark Helmet : What? You went over my helmet?”
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“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
From Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Marcia.html (trans. J. W. Basore)
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“Oh salty sea, how much of your salt
are tears of Portugal!”
Poem "Mar Português", Verses 1-2
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Original: Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal
São lágrimas de Portugal!

(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830

The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.”
Source: Look to Windward

Sam Smith (February 17, 1998) "Making a Run From the Border", Chicago Tribune, p. 5.