The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

“But most of all, as summer slanted to an end, he was learning to love idleness, idleness no longer as stretches of freedom reclaimed…

— J.M. Coetzee

People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind…

— Frederick Lenz

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

— Francois Arago

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

And the rest is rust and stardust.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let…

— Margaret Atwood

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

— Benedict of Nursia

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can…

— Simon Hughes

Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Its better to wear out than to rust out.

— Richard Cumberland

Worry is only rust on the blade

— Henry Ward Hughes

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Samuel Johnson

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

— Ovid