The Walking Drum Quotes
American novels, Historical novels
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“A lion is not to be slain by jackals.”
“Where there is gold, there is blood.”
“I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.”
“What can the will do when the heart commands?”
“What road has not left its dust upon my feet?”
“'''A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.”
“Much of command is the ability to take command.”
“How many are the lives we meet and pass! -Mathurin”
“If I do not travel late I may not travel at all. -Mathurin”
“When one has lost his freedom it is always a long walk back.”
“My mind is my sword, and if you linger you shall feel its edge.”
“The companion of vagabonds. Few men are so poor they cannot have fire.”
“That man is a fool who would descend into a well on another man's rope.”
“Perhaps the blood here is thinning now, and perfume appreciated more than sweat.”
“I have observed that the steps of a man sound heavier when he is alone in the hall.”
“I shall simply ask. Many things are not done simply because they are not attempted.”
“The soul of business is to inspire people to buy that which they neither need nor want.”
“Aye, he would cheat his own mother, and willingly, if he could have a coin by doing it.”
“If one plans to measure blows with a stranger, one had best judge the length of his arm.”
“A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.”