Honing Marks

Famous quotes containing the words honing and/or marks:

“His conversation glided on the brain
Like a razor honing in promise of one’s decease....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value—to myself, to my family, and to the world.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)