Famous quotes containing the words master and/or sword:
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery....Child’s play is the infantile form of the human ability to deal with experience by creating model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning.”
—Erik H. Erikson (20th century)
“When valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)