Top 98 Quotes About Anvil
#1. A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster
#2. ZENITH
NOON beats out
on its solar anvil
the rays of light
Sonia Delaunay
#3. Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#4. Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#7. We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
Charles Schumer
#8. The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
Alfred Nobel
#9. I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
Angie Harmon
#10. A hand landed on his shoulder like an anvil. "How'd you like to stay for dinner?"
Butch looked up. The guy was wearing a baseball cap and had some kind of marking - was that a tattoo, on his face?
"How'd you like to be dinner?" said another one, who looked like some kind of model.
J.R. Ward
#11. In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
Voltaire
#12. A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?"
"Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing."
"As if he dashed into an anvil.
Julia Quinn
#13. Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
#14. Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
Steve Rushin
#15. The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus
#16. The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
Ramana Maharshi
#17. Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan
#18. It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.
George Orwell
#19. Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.
Herman Melville
#20. Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
[Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#21. And as any man does when faced with the raw terror of emotion, he surrendered to his wife and buried his thoughts below the anvil of his heart.
Jason Mott
#22. Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
Gustave Flaubert
#23. Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
Pindar
#24. I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.
Joel Greenblatt
#25. Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.
Herman E. Daly
#26. Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
#27. I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.
Dinaw Mengestu
#28. The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. Outside the windows, the land was as flat, as interesting, as the head of an anvil, and the shadows of the corn advanced like the rifle barrels of an approaching army.
Stephen Wright
#31. For all your years prepare,
And meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham
#32. The work of Renny's bow, Anvil's teeth, Nathaniel's fists and the four swords of the others brought the fight to a quick close.
Nicole Sager
#33. Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
Pindar
#34. Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.
Elizabeth Haydon
#35. As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.
Madeleine Sophie Barat
#36. Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
Carl Sandburg
#37. What the hammer? What the Chains?
In what furnace was thy brain?
Where the anvil? What dread grasp?
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
William Blake
#38. You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#39. She had written Darcy the letter and posted it from her husband's tenth-story office while he was away in some strumpet's bed. And then she'd transformed herself into a bird, and then an anvil, and then a corpse.
Thomas Mullen
#40. The lazy flesh disappeared. Our muscles became hard as steel, refined on the anvil of an experienced blacksmith. Even our faces changed. Among other things, we learned to ride, to fence, to take a fall. And these we learned for life.
Ernst Junger
#41. Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value.
Charles R. Swindoll
#42. Our character was being forged on the anvil of the difficult experiences we were facing. We knew that if we remained committed to God's purposes for us, we would be prepared to face the future.
George Foster
#43. A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll
#44. man is not molded from clay . . . he is pounded like hot iron on an anvil.
Terry Mancour
#46. All creatures on Earth have been hammered on the anvil of its gravity, for example, which influences size and morphology. So I am sceptical about finding armoured reptiles who can fly and spout flames.
Terry Pratchett
#47. People coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
Margaret Halsey
#50. Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
Thomas Malory
#51. As for the coyote, he was nothing like his cartoon icon. He was sleek, fast, healthy and apparently without an anvil or Acme product of any kind.
Doug Fine
#52. And deep within him, missing its accustomed tread, his heart paused, and gave one single stroke, as if on an anvil.
Dorothy Dunnett
#53. The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.
John Buchan
#54. Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is trueborn King of all Britain.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#55. I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
Erwin Rommel
#56. Love like an anvil had cracked my locked heart open and unleashed an excruciating flow of tenderness
Krista Bremer
#57. Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#58. his abuse
makes her an anvil
without spark
Munia Khan
#59. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher
#60. The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
J.G. Holland
#61. He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
Chris Crutcher
#62. Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#64. My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.
Ben Robertson
#65. The anvil is hard so that it can help shape the blade. If life were easy, we would all be soft and misshapen shards of metal, tossed into a bin.
J.M. Bush
#66. Let me think ... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
Isaac Newton
#67. ... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer...
Terry Pratchett
#68. Thank God I didn't have to see his smug face. Sometimes, I wished I had a pie that I could smash into it. Well, if by pie I meant anvil, then yes. I smiled at the visual. I really was sick.
Emily Cyr
#69. It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.
Pallam Raju
#70. Ordinary effort, ordinary result ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.
Ethan Hawke
#71. Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.
Berl Katznelson
#72. I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Freya Stark
#73. If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?
Jodi Picoult
#74. We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.
Daniel Gillies
#75. Snowmageddon.
Dirty glacial clouds hammered the city's anvil. On the District of Columbia's northwestern edge, gusts of snow rolled across the Park Road Bridge like volcanic ash.
Simon Conway
#76. One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Emile Zola
#77. She had seen a huge hunchback ogre with meaty forearms and a pruned face crossing a courtyard with an anvil under one arm.
Brandon Mull
#78. A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
Saint Dominic
#79. The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford
#80. On the anvil of August, the city lay paralyzed, stunned into stupidity by the heat.
Janet Fitch
#81. Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
J.G. Holland
#82. We could use all the blessings we could get. The impact of what we were about to do hit me like an anvil on Wile E. Coyote's head. We were heading out to stop Satan's son and save the world from certain destruction.
Piece of cake.
Terri Clark
#83. Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
Neal A. Maxwell
#84. ... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.
Terry Pratchett
#85. Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Billy Casper
#87. And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
Horace
#88. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer ...
George Orwell
#89. I will not move an inch; I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking
Munia Khan
#90. The blades sang like the strokes of a hammer on a blacksmith's anvil echoing in the empty churchyard.
Stanley Goldyn
#92. You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.
Steve "Lips" Kudlow
#93. Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil.
Pindar
#94. Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.
C.L. Werner
#95. God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished.
Tad Williams
#96. There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.
Sara Genn
#97. Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
Anne Bradstreet
#98. When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
T.D. Jakes
