Famous quotes containing the words assay and/or master:
“The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne,
Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge,
The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne;
Al this mene I be love.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)
“To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)