Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:
“What though he did not belong to your clique! Though you may not approve of his method or his principles, recognize his magnanimity. Would you not like to claim kindredship with him in that, though in no other thing he is like, or likely, to you? Do you think that you would lose your reputation so? What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“At a few drops of womens rheum, which are
As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labor
Of our great action.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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