Rust Quotes - Page 9

• War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Iron, Storm

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• We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

  Max Planck

  Struggle, Hard Work, Health

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

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• It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

  Jack Gilbert

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf

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• Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.32

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• The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sometimes, Court, Camps

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.207

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• By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Selfishness

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.364

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• I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Iron, Might, Bronze

  "'Iron Lady' unveils her bronze statue", uk.reuters.com. February 22, 2007.

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• Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

  Joseph Addison

  Age, Looks, Pieces

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.446

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• When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Loss

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• Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.

  Van Morrison

  Tired, Men, Clouds

  Song: Alan Watts Blues, Album: Poetic Champions Compose

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• If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Fighting, Silence

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