Quotes about ironclad

A collection of quotes on the topic of ironclad.

Quotes about ironclad

“Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Quoted in The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Vol. 209 (1909), p. 387
1900s

“…"We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun."…”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“Then the irony of the situation forced itself upon me. There around us lay treasures enough to pay off a moderate national debt, or to build a fleet of ironclads, and yet we would have bartered them all gladly for the faintest chance of escape. Soon, doubtless, we should be rejoiced to exchange them for a bit of food or a cup of water, and, after that, even for the privilege of a speedy close to our sufferings. Truly wealth, which men spend their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.”

H. Rider Haggard book King Solomon's Mines

Source: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 18, "We Abandon Hope"

Men, Food, Suffering, Water