Iron Quotes

“Iron sharpeneth iron.”

“Wikipedia: Iron”

“I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool.”

“Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.”

“Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu. (The iron ring is worn out by constant use.)”

“Wikicommons: Iron”

“In other part stood one who, at the forge
Labouring, two massy clods of iron and brass
Had melted.”

“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

“After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.”

“ The Elemental Iron*Lab.org, It's Elemental.”

“We put things in order — God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.”

“With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.
...
Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!”

“We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry.”

“When iron was found, the trees began to tremble, but the iron reassured them: 'Let no handle made from you enter into anything made from me, and I shall be powerless to injure you.'”

“Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.”

“And the smith his iron measures hammered to the anvil's chime;
Thanking God, whose boundless wisdom makes the flowers of poesy bloom
In the forge's dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom.”

“Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands:
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.”

“Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain.”

“After I had made a second blast and tryal the fesibility of making iron with pitcole and sea-cole I found by my new invention, the quality to be good and profitable, but the quantity did not exceed above 3 tuns per week.”

“Iron-The Periodic Table of Videos'', University of Nottingham”