Rust Quotes

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. (Antisthenes)
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. View quote
Joseph Addison
If you rest, you rust. View quote
Helen Hayes
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. View quote
Owen Feltham
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. View quote
Milan Kundera
Solitude may rust your words. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. View quote
Gene Fowler
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good. View quote
Vinny Testaverde
Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time. View quote
Leonard Cohen
We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust. View quote
Joan Baez
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, As tho' to breathe were life. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. View quote
Maya Angelou
There is rust in my mouth, the stain of an old kiss. View quote
Anne Sexton
Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown. View quote
Van Morrison
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. View quote
Philip Sidney
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words. View quote
Douglas Coupland
And the rest is rust and stardust. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
It is better to rust out than wear out. View quote
Edwin Markham
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
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 the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the towered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain... View quote
Robinson Jeffers
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. (Robert South)
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia. The terrible military machine, which we and the rest of the civilized world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces.... So now this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation. View quote
Winston Churchill
. I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust. View quote
David Levithan