“Staplers--- Excellent source of iron”
Source: The Lost Hero
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“The foolishness of the great and the wealthy is an excellent source of revenue for the humble.”
C'est un fonds excellent de revenu pour les petits, que la sottise des riches et des grands.
Part 1, p. 83; translation p. 38.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)
As quoted in "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, in USA Today (31 January 2009) http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/steelers/2009-01-29-tomlin-cover_N.htm
Derived from Proverbs 27:17 "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 58
“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”
Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 9.
“Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”
p, 125
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)
“I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.”
Usher II (1950)
Source: The Martian Chronicles (1950)
“The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.”
"Washington Monument by Night" in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)