Any old iron, any old iron, Anyany old old iron? You look neat Talk about a treat, You look dapper from your napper to your feet. Dressed in style, brand new tile, And your father's old green tie on, But I wouldn't give you tuppence for your old watch chain; Old iron, old iron?

-Collins, Charles
  'Any Old Iron' (with E  A Sheppard and Fred Terry). The second line is commonly rendered'Any any any old iron?'.

Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe beforeher shewill override you. Sotheway totreat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

There are only twelve notes.You must treat them carefully.

-Hindemith, Paul
Quoted in Derek Watson Music Quotations (1991).

Handle so, dass du die Menschheit, sowohl in deiner Person, als in der Person eines jeden andern, jederzeit zugleich als Zweck, niemals bloÞ als Mittel brauchst. Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.

-Kant, Immanuel
  Grundlagen zur Metaphysik der Sitten (Groundwork to a Metaphysic of Morals), ch.2 (translated by H  J Paton).

And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'The Everlasting Mercy'.

The ground is like a beautiful woman. If you treat her gently, she'll tell you all her secrets.

-Snow, Clyde Collins
On exploring the massacre of thousands of Mayan Indians in Guatemala in the early1980s. In theWashington Post,18 Dec.