Famous quotes containing the words man, iron, mask, the and/or prisoner:
“The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“There is a doctrine uttered in secret that man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)