Quotes of Iron - somelinesforyou

“ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ My father … lived as if he were poured of iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching. ”

- Mari E. Evans

“ No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ”

- Isaac Babel

“ No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason. ”

- St. Clare of Assisi

“ Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it. ”

- Vivien Kellems

“ Soft pity enters an iron gate. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. ”

- Richard Lovelace

“ Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. ”

- Lee Trevino

“ The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red. ”

- Andy Goldsworthy

“ The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. ”

- Spike Milligan

“ We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. ”

- John Dryden

“ In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. ”

- Christina Rossetti

“ Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. ”

- Robert Jordan

“ Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships. ”

- Ernst Jünger

“ He shall rule them with a rod of iron. ”

- Bible

“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. ”

- Horace Mann

“ Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ”

- Antisthenes

“ As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ 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 out the very heart and substance of the metal. ”

- Bishop Robert South

“ Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. ”

- Alphonse de Lamartine
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