Iron Quotes

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. (Antisthenes)
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. View quote
Horace Mann
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. View quote
Winston Churchill
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. View quote
H. G. Wells
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. View quote
Spike Milligan
My wife has a whim of iron. View quote
Oliver Herford
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions that was the error of 1848 and 1849 but by iron and blood. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Ice and iron cannot be welded. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk. View quote
George S. Patton
In the bleak mid-winter 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 mid-winter Long ago. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. View quote
Mark Twain
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. View quote
Anthony the Great
Copious springs are found where there are mines of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, and the like, but they are very harmful. View quote
Vitruvius
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair, and the first thing they grab is an iron hook. (Bill Cosby)
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music. View quote
Daisy Berkowitz
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is. View quote
Horace Mann
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department. View quote
Alain de Botton