Gain Babenberg Blood

Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

“We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“He was a fool—a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his brain, and all the blood poured out, and he could not see the Mexican sun. Your people raised the ax, and the last blood of revolutionary mankind, his poor blood, ran into the carpet.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)