Famous quotes containing the words master and/or sword:
“To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)
“A boy not beautiful, nor good, nor clever,
A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping,
A sword beneath his mother’s heart— yet never
Woman bewept her babe as this is weeping.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)