“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
December 21, 1762
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin.”
XIX. 13 (tr. Robert Fagles); Odysseus to Telemachus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the OdysseyRelated quotes
“And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace.”
Robert Montgomery (poet) (1807–1855) English poet
The Omnipresence of the Deity, Part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control / Stops with the shore", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, stanza 179.
Robert South (1634–1716) English theologian
Sermon preach at St. Marys, December 10, 1661, in Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions (1727), Vol. 3, p. 140
“Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 4, “Green Earth” (p. 166)
“The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Washington Monument by Night" in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
“Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power.”
Pierce Brown book Golden Son
Source: Golden Son (2015), Ch. 15: Truth; Aja
Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) German Jewish philosopher and theologian
Source: Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783), p. 73
“I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.”
Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles
Usher II (1950)
Source: The Martian Chronicles (1950)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
p, 125
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)
