Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or man:
“All-destroying sword-blade still
Carried by the wandering fool.
Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
Beauty and fool together laid.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)