Quotes and Sayings About Rust
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I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
-- Alfred Schnittke -
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of ShaftesburySource : "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Edition by Philip Ayres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis", 1711.
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The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Waiting is the rust of the soul.
-- Carlos Ruiz ZafonSource : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.298, Penguin
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Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
-- Denis Waitley -
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
-- Douglas Coupland -
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.
-- Edward Ramsay -
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron
-- Ezra Cornell -
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The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a bit of rust.
-- Graham Henry -
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
-- James Russell Lowell -
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
-- Jeanne CalmentSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
-- Joan Baez -
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Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]
-- Ludwig Borne -
We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.
-- Luis Medina -
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
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I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!
-- Matthias Schoenaerts -
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.
-- Michael Chabon -
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
-- Ovid -
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
-- Owen Feltham -
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
-- Philip Sidney -
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
-- Quintilian