Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may…

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

— Charles II of England

“If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!”

— Sheri Cobb South

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that…

— Anonymous

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But…

— Lloyd Alexander

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is…

— J. G. Holland

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

— Erwin Rommel

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

— Charles Spurgeon

Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

— Robert Jordan

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father…

— Alfred Nobel