(357 quotes found)
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
William Butler Yeats
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
Henry David Thoreau
“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”
Spike Milligan
“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
Charles Caleb Colton
“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
“I think its ironic that for once dad's butt prevented the release of toxic gas”
Nancy Cartwright
“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”
Antisthenes
“The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”
Claude Debussy
“I'm gonna be iron like a lion in Zion”
Bob Marley
“You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
Meryl Streep