Rust Quotes

• None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!

  Ratan Tata

  Iron, Mindset, Persons

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• If you rest, you rust.

  Helen Hayes

  Funny, Life, Perseverance

  Helen Hayes, Katherine Hatch (1991). “My life in three acts”

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  And the rest is rust and stardust.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stardust

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.142, Hamilton Books

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• Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Friday, Sunday

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.176

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Iron, Acting

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

  Ezra Cornell

  Iron, Mind, Economy

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• May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

  Edward Ramsay

  Friendship, Wings, May

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• It is better to rust out than wear out.

  Edwin Markham

  Literature

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• I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Weed, Decay, Stardust

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.142, Hamilton Books

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• We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.

  Joan Baez

  Memories, Expression, Diamond

  "Diamonds and Rust" (song) (1975)

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• If you have feet, walk! If you have wings, fly! Whatever you have, use them! Don't let them to rust!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wings, Feet, Use

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• The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Crazy, Tragedy, Talent

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• As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

  Antisthenes

  Men, Iron, Envy

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• I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Failure, Heart

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• Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

  Leonard Cohen

  Time And Love, Engines

  "Flowers for Hitler". Poem by Leonard Cohen, 1964.

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• It’s better to wear out than rust out.

  David J. Schwartz

  Birthday, Labor, My Birthday

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.27, Penguin

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• Waiting is the rust of the soul.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Waiting, Soul

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.298, Penguin

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• Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

  William Shakespeare

  Dew

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 2, l. 59

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• And thus we rust Life's iron chain
  Degraded and alone:
  And some men curse, and some men weep,
  And some men make no moan:
  But God's eternal Laws are kind
  And break the heart of stone

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Love Life, Iron

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• The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Genius, Destruction

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

  Antisthenes

  Jealousy, Anger, Passion

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• If you don't run, you rust.

  Tom Petty

  Running, Ifs

  Song: Big Weekend, Album: Highway Companion, 2006

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• Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

  Denis Waitley

  People, Challenges, Dues

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• If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Iron, Gold, Canterbury Tales

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