Famous quotes containing the words browning, machine and/or guns:
“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life:
Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“With drums and guns, and guns and drums
The enemy nearly slew ye,
My darling dear, you look so queer,
Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye!”
—Unknown. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (l. Chorus.)
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