X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Forts" (8)

Page 1 of 1
Filter & Style
Image
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London
Ambrose Bierce
Image
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
Derek Walcott
Image
As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.
Frank Moore Colby
Image
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Image
I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts and things. But I didn't set out to be an action hero.
Chris Hemsworth
Image
To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.
Dwight L. Moody
Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
Plutarch