Anvils Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anvils Beaten Every man France Hammers Men
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
