Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be…

You tell that to the people who are dying everyday in Anvil.

— Jin Kazama

In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

— Isaac Newton

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

— Robert Jordan

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

— Thomas Malory

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

— Charles Spurgeon

When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.

— James Carville

“Stand like a beaten anvil.”

— Ignatius Bishop and Martyr

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.”

— C.L. Werner

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

— Erwin Rommel

If you're a blacksmith, probably the proudest day of your life is when you get your first anvil. How innocent you are, little blacksmith.

— Jack Handey

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For all your years prepare, And meet them ever alike; When you are the anvil, bear-- When you are the hammer, strike. ”

— Edwin Markham