Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or wheel:
“Persistence can grind an iron beam down into a needle.”
—Chinese proverb.
“But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)