Rust Quotes

178 quotes by 151 authors

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets. — William Shakespeare
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence. — Francois Fenelon
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. — Wilder Penfield
As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and… — Thomas a Kempis
Better to wear out than rust out. — Jack LaLanne
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of… — Samuel Johnson
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves. — Owen Feltham
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the fleshâ€“ whatever pleasures we know are doomed… — Guillermo del Toro
I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love… — David Ignatow
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the… — Orison Swett Marden
The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the… — Christopher Fry
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats… — Robert South
When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and… — Alan Lee
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste… — Thomas Traherne
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
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
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
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather. — Edward Ramsay
It is better to rust out than wear out. — Edwin Markham
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

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