Learning Quote by J.A. Rogers

“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is to love, laugh, and work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.”

— Martin Amis

“If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.”

— Agatha Christie

“and wasn’t rust growth, of a kind? the growth of decay? If you don’t grow, you die;”

— Kathe Koja

“The small meannesses bred by the law of competition corrode men's character as rust spoils steel.”

— Frances Willard

“Civilisation is only savagery silver-gilt.”

— H. Rider Haggard

“...that thing that's taken refuge there in that zinc bucket, without a wife, a career, a conapt, or money or the possibility of encountering…

— Philip K. Dick

“You cannot shine if you are unused, for then you will rust and deflate.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“Keep the gold and keep the silver, but give us wisdom.”

— arabian proverb

“How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!”

— Proverbs 16 16

“Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else…

— Sophocles