Malleable Bronze

Famous quotes containing the words malleable and/or bronze:

    “I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Both nuns and mothers worship images,
    But those the candles light are not as those
    That animate a mother’s reveries,
    But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)