Iron Quotes

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Educated, Gold

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill

Curtain, Across, Continent

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle

Power, Sense, Matter

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher

Thankful, Heart, Blessings

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, History, Nor

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats

Wait, Hot, Strike

What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret Thatcher

Needs, Lady, Britain

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Thatcher

Good, Strong, Bad

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
Phyllis Diller

Time, Enjoyed, Steam

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

Teacher, Learn, Desire

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Mind, Water, Inaction

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King Solomon

Friend, Sharpens

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Oliver Cromwell

While, Hot, Strike

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

Person, Soul, Force

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hard, Trouble, Behind

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin

Water, Sincere, Dry

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck

Great, Decisions, Means

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!
Cat Cora

Life, Best, Successful

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles de Lint

Music, Mind, Heart

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

Passion, Away, Envious

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann

Teacher, Learn, Desire

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb Colton

Adversity, United, Flame

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock

Game, Mean, Big

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

Hand, Piece, Ten

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

Heart, Last, Conscience

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.
H. G. Wells

Nothing, Ugly, Measure

Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
Tom Hiddleston

Talent, Finally, Helped

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
Jeff Bridges

Adventure, Therapy

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
Robert Plant

Time, End, Around

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.
Lee Trevino

God, Stand, Hold

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