Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or man:
“Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)