Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Arabian Proverb

When you are an anvil be patient; when a hammer, strike

Claude Helvetius

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil

E. Helm

My father-in-law had an anvil and he gave it to me. I noticed it had a name on it. I thought that was interesting, so I tried to get all the different kinds I could.

Thomas Malory

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

Billy Casper

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities -patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Neal Pollack

We now have evidence that Saddam Hussein is in possession of cartoon trucks. Because (they) are cartoon trucks, that means that they can fall into a very deep canyon with an anvil attached to them and still survive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Jean Verbos

Right now we're working on funding for several projects. One is a new water system for Indianhead and a pumping station. They will get some work. Anvil Location in Bessemer Township is going to get a new water system.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Alan Pardew

It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)

Alan Rickman

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

Alan Jay Lerner

England still will be here without you.

Chris Barber

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

C. S. Forester

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Chris Sullivan

Until a few years ago, it was never as popular over there as it was here. But by this point, it has been commercialized and is a pretty big celebration in Ireland and England.

William Shakespeare

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

William Shakespeare

England is safe, if true within itself.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Mary Shelley

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Mary Shelley

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Mary Shelley

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Anthony Trollope

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Dean Inge

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Dean Inge

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Jonathan Zittrain

(With the DMCA) you have the sword of Damocles,

Rasim Ljajic

This threat hangs like a sword over our necks.

Tom Cech

It's kind of a double-edged sword for these farmers.

Jim Butcher

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.