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Vessel Quotes - Page 2

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

"Chinese Premier Splashes Out With the Rhetoric". uk.reuters.com. March 16, 2007.

The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

"Lao-tzu: Te-tao ching : a new translation based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui texts".

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.275, Applewood Books

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

Tim Powers (2011). “On Stranger Tides”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.7

Emptie vessels sound most.

"Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert". Book compiled by George Herbert et al., 1651.

Ill vessels seldome miscarry.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319