I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're…

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan:…

— Oscar Wilde

Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old?…

— Henry David Thoreau

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

— Yiddish Proverb

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

— Leonardo da Vinci

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from…

— Harry Houdini

There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had…

— Lance Armstrong

Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles...

— Ilona Andrews

Worry is only rust on the blade

— Henry Ward Hughes

I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight,…

— Tyron Woodley

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

— William Shakespeare

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

— Samuel Johnson

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

— Ovid

And the rest is rust and stardust.

— Vladimir Nabokov