
“Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)
"The Brook", st. 5
“Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)
“Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 7 (p. 68) (motto of the Qeng Ho trading group).
“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
VIII, 4
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“If men must beg to live,
May the Creator also go wandering and perish.”
Verse CVII.2
Tirukkural
River Man
Song lyrics, Five Leaves Left (1969)
Variant: Going to see the river man.
Going to tell him all I can
About the ban
On feeling free.If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows,
I don't suppose
It's meant for me.
A Comparison.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Treacherous, written by Taylor Swift and Dan Wilson.
Song lyrics, Red (2012)