“…like a ship, clean and trim on a dirty sea of pox and camel-dung.”
Fiction, Napoleon Symphony (1974)
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English writer 1917–1993Related quotes
Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
This saying appears to be due to John Augustus Shedd; it was quoted in "Grace Hopper : The Youthful Teacher of Us All" by Henry S. Tropp in Abacus Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Fall 1984) ISSN 0724-6722 . She did repeat this saying on multiple occasions, but she called it "a motto that has stuck with me" and did not claim coinage. Additional variations and citations may be found at Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/09/safe-harbor/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?”
Patrick O'Brian book Master and Commander
"She must have three square-rigged masts, sir," they told him kindly, "and a bowsprit; and the masts must be in three - lower, top and topgallant - for we never call a polacre a ship."
Master and Commander (1970)
“I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.”
January 1979.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
“Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.”
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
To My Lord of Falkland.
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Lady Wentworth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.”
Stephen Fry book The Hippopotamus
Source: The Hippopotamus
“3444. Money, like Dung, does no Good till ’tis spread.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)