Famous quotes containing the words man, steam and/or packet:
“A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if I do not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“we know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)