Baths Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

— Ezra Cornell

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

— Yiddish Proverb

I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.

— George Newbern

I believe in always having a lot of irons in the fire.

— Iliza Shlesinger

When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age;…

— Robinson Jeffers

I have a lot of irons in the fire.

— Ian Ziering

“It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole…

— Alfred Tennyson

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty…

— Anonymous

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

— James E. Faust

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

— Voltaire

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

— Samuel Smiles