Light Alloy

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or alloy:

“When goose down is sent a thousand miles, the gift may be light but the sentiment is weighty.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)