Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or man:
“When Sheba was his lass,
When she the iron wrought, or
When from the smithy fire
It shuddered in the water:
Harshness of their desire
That made them stretch and yawn....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“A man may begin as a bad sound, or even as a bad echo, but he is to be distrusted if he begins as a good echo.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)