Quotes & Sayings About Anvils

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July. — Bill Bryson

We will respond, even in the face of irony and slander, with the sweetness of love. We can afford to take this attitude because good anvils do not fear the blows of many hammers. — Richard Wurmbrand

As great Pythagoras of yore,
Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
And hearing the hammers, as they smote
The anvils with a different note,
Stole from the varying tones, that hung
Vibrant on every iron tongue,
The secret of the sounding wire.
And formed the seven-chorded lyre. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anyone can kill a planet from orbit," Holden replied. "You don't even need bombs. Just push anvils out the airlock. That thing out there could kill ... Shit. Anything. — James S.A. Corey

Carpenters don't make their saws and hammers, tailors don't make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don't make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make their hammers, tongs, anvils, and chisels — Daniel C. Dennett

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten. — Voltaire

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

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. — Horace

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. — Pindar

This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils. — John Calvin

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. — Pindar

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer. — Charles Spurgeon

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

We all think we understand each other,' Kin heard Silver say. 'We eat together, we trade, many of us pride ourselves on having alien friends - but all this is only possible, only possible, Kin, because we do not fully comprehend the other. You've studied Earth history. Do you think you could understand the workings of of the mind of a Japanese warrior a thousand years ago? But he is as a twin to you compared with Marco, or with myself. When we use the word "cosmopolitan" we use it too lightly - it's flippant, it means we're galactic tourists who communicate in superficialities. We don't comprehend. Different worlds, Kin. Different anvils of gravity and radiation and evolution. — Terry Pratchett

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! — Charles Schumer

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping. — Neal A. Maxwell

Let me think ... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? — Isaac Newton

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen." — James Russell Lowell

Caladan Brood, the menhired one, winter-bearing, barrowed and sorrowless . . ." Calot picked up the next lines. ". . . in a tomb bereaved of words, and in his hands that have crushed anvils - " Tattersail continued, "the hammer of his song - he lives asleep, so give silent warning to all - wake him not. — Steven Erikson

Personal brands have become anvils on which great businesses are forged — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice.
"For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils. — Jim Butcher

There was the sky, filled with flat-topped clouds, cruising like a fleet of anvils across the blue. George — Paul Harding

We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel,
Till pain itself make us no pain to feel. — John Webster

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed. — Charles Spurgeon

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

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares. — Walter Raleigh

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil. — Joel Greenblatt

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon. — Ignatius Of Loyola

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