Famous quotes containing the words gordon and/or equation:
“So for a good old-gentlemanly vice,
I think I must take up with avarice.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)