Iron Quotes - Page 28

• I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Men, Perfect, Iron Man

  "How Nobu Got Help With the Wake-Up". Interview with Sarah Rosenberg, Tom Mccarthy, abcnews.go.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

  Rod Serling

  Enemy, Logic, Truth Is

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• I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
  [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
  Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

  Horace

  Cutting, Vices, Action

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• Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hot, Strikes

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.361, Lulu Press, Inc

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• (Slaughter) means blood and iron.
  [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

  Quintilian

  War, Mean, Blood

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• Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Hatred, Scorpions, Use

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.46

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• There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Believe, Men

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• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Appreciation, Book, Sunset

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Giving Up, Men, Worry

  Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

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• There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Gold, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.161

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• I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Plato, Book, Reading

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• This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Mind, World

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• The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
  [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

  Ovid

  Use, Action, Worn

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• I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.

  Isak Dinesen

  Morning, Eye, Dark

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly.

  Isak Dinesen

  Travel, Lying, Arrows

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• Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

  Samuel Johnson

  Soul, Extravagance, Followers

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• Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

  John Milton

  Couple, Hate, Law

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• I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail.

  Rona Barrett

  Tails, Assertiveness

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• on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

  Mae West

  Husband, Men, Two

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• It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Thinking, Bars

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

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• As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

  Antisthenes

  Men, Envy, Rust

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• See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

  John Galsworthy

  Hot, Danger, Peril

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• Why I enjoyed doing Iron Man because it opened me up to this new world where fans are so passionate.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Men, World, Fans

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Men, Doors

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brian R. Harding (1998). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.47, Oxford University Press, USA

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