Iron Quotes

789 Iron quotes by 608 unique authors

When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron… — Robinson Jeffers
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man… — Charles Caleb Colton
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. — Spike Milligan
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). — John Milton
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will. — Alexander MacLaren
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing… — Diogenes
If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with… — Henry Ward Beecher
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in… — Leonardo da Vinci
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in… — Charles Horton Cooley
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of… — Pliny the Elder
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then,… — Jonathan Evison
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or… — Steven Pinker
What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward… — Paul Harding
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal… — Paul Fussell
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow. — Paula Fox
Kindness is stronger than iron bars. — Margaret George
But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience… — Arthur Koestler
We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age. — Karl Pilkington
The truth is that our only safety, our only security, our only hope is to hold fast to that which is good. As the mists… — David S. Baxter
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. — Andy Hargreaves
From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the… — Robert Schumann
If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.... — Joseph Joubert

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