Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hippocrates

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

Ike Barinholtz

Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.

Jack London

But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

Dusty Baker

It's a possibility. We'll iron it out this week.

Andre Agassi

It's quite ironic that it turned out that way,

It's like a shirt when it's all wrinkled up. You press it with an iron and it comes out looking better.

LL Cool J

If you don’t judge my gold chains, I’ll forget the iron chains,

Mao Zedong

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

John Flavel

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

Philip Levine

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Philip Levine

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Elizabeth Gaskell

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Jimmy Fallon

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

Lee Trevino

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

Karl Pilkington

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Julian Barnes

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Haruki Murakami

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Gore Verbinski

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

John Dryden

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

Katherine Dunn

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

Joseph Conrad

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Juliet Marillier

Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath

P. G. Wodehouse

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

Ovid

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

Masanobu Fukuoka

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Joseph Stalin

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Joey Fatone

I have kind of an iron stomach.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

Natan Sharansky

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.