Famous quotes containing the words sword and/or master:
“...all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 26:52.
Jesus.
“Though it seems improbable on the face of it
You must master the huge retards and have faith in the slow
Blossoming of haystacks, stairways, walls of convolvulus,
Until the moon can do no more. Exhausted,
You get out of bed. Your project is completed
Though the experiment is a mess.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)