Ashes Defeat

Famous quotes containing the words ashes and/or defeat:

“The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to Nature; and the skin or skeleton you show me, is no more a heron, than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
—Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944)