Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or gall:
“Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.”
—Chinese proverb.
“No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)