Famous quotes containing the words hollow and/or sword:
“Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“I had not given a penny for a song
Did not the poet sing it with such airs
That one believed he had a sword upstairs;
Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)