Single Crystal Ingots

Famous quotes containing the words single, crystal and/or ingots:

    “To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was “A single soul dwelling in two bodies.””
    —Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

    “In a few days I’ll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod—always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults—rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “If thou art rich, thou’rt poor,
    For like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
    Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey,
    And death unloads thee.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)