Famous quotes containing the words armor and/or plates:
“Poor shad! where is thy redress? When Nature gave thee instinct, gave she thee the heart to bear thy fate? Still wandering the sea in thy scaly armor to inquire humbly at the mouths of rivers if man has perchance left them free for thee to enter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)