Famous quotes containing the words sword and/or blade:
“When valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I would not knock old fellows in the dust
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
His weapons were the old heart in his bust
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)