Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or chains:
“Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.”
—Chinese proverb.
“‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many—they are few.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)