Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or metal:
“Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)