Famous quotes containing the words ice and/or resistance:
“Goodness and evil never share the same road, just as ice and charcoal never share the same container.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The greatest, or rather the most prominent, part of this city was constructed with the design to offer the deadest resistance to leaden and iron missiles that might be cast against it. But it is a remarkable meteorological and psychological fact, that it is rarely known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so constructed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)