Iron Quotes
789 Iron quotes by 608 unique authors
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It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.
— Robin Williams
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I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed…
— Greg Norman
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy…
— Virginia Woolf
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
— David Lloyd George
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Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised…
— Janet Morris
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and…
— Anne Bradstreet
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Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
— John Bunyan
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Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps…
— Adrian Lyne
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No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in…
— Mia Hamm
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Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings…
— Howard Bloom
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The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new…
— Freeman Dyson
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You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory…
— Ferdinand Magellan
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.'…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening…
— John Ruskin
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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a…
— James Prescott Joule
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in…
— Norman Mailer
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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
Who Wrote These Iron Quotes
608 authors contributed a total of 789 Iron Quotes, led by these top contributors: