Anvil Quote by Carl Sandburg

“Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift…

— Carl Sandburg

Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

— Berton Braley

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

— George Orwell

“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

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

— Voltaire

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

— Erwin Rommel

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Robert Jordan

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

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

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

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

— Isaac Newton