Long Sword

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or sword:

“Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“A boy not beautiful, nor good, nor clever,
A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping,
A sword beneath his mother’s heart— yet never
Woman bewept her babe as this is weeping.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)