Anvil Quotes

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. (Émile Zola)
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise King born of all England. View quote
Thomas Malory
When you are an anvil, hold you still when you are a hammer, strike your fill. View quote
George Herbert
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. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. View quote
Elizabeth Haydon
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. View quote
Charles Swindoll
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. View quote
Leland Stanford
I would rather be the hammer than the anvil. View quote
Erwin Rommel
In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. (Henry Ward Beecher)
[T]here has never been a society in all of human history where the average person did not have to work. Sure, some crapulent prince could lay around all day and do nothing, but everyone else had to till the soil or pound the anvil or carry a spear. View quote
Jonah Goldberg
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, Put your work twenty times upon the anvil. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. View quote
Carl Sandburg
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. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
May the Gods, if they did not die of boredom, never give you one of those flat kingdoms to govern; may lead you through mountain paths; may they give you for a companion a good Andalusian mule with eyes like wells, a brow like an anvil, and who stops dead in his tracks because he sees the shadow his ears make on the road in front of him. View quote
Émile Chartier
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer. View quote
George Orwell
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. View quote
Aeschylus
I proffer the following ideas with a substantial degree of trepidation; I know very well that many of them are speculative and can be proved or disproved on the anvil of experiment. View quote
Carl Sagan
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. (Emily Dickinson)
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike. View quote
Edwin Markham
6075. When you are Anvil, hold you still; When you are Hammer, strike your Fill. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. View quote
Angie Harmon
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. View quote
M. M. Pallam Raju