Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claude Helvetius

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil

Billy Casper

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities -patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Charles Spurgeon

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Arabian Proverb

When you are an anvil be patient; when a hammer, strike

Thomas Malory

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

E. Helm

My father-in-law had an anvil and he gave it to me. I noticed it had a name on it. I thought that was interesting, so I tried to get all the different kinds I could.

Neal Pollack

We now have evidence that Saddam Hussein is in possession of cartoon trucks. Because (they) are cartoon trucks, that means that they can fall into a very deep canyon with an anvil attached to them and still survive.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers.

Jean Verbos

Right now we're working on funding for several projects. One is a new water system for Indianhead and a pumping station. They will get some work. Anvil Location in Bessemer Township is going to get a new water system.

Bertrand Russell

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Kerry Collins

That was a tough way to open up the season ... all the hype and everything and playing in New England, which is about as tough a place as you can play,

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Matthew Quick

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Jacques Santini

We have a lot of respect for England,

Bill Cummings

We've made many great matches. In fact, one of our matches is taking a trip to England this spring. They don't all turn out that way, but you never know.

William Shakespeare

I cannot speak your england.

Joseph Banks

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

David Beckham

Whoever comes in as England manager it is up to him to pick the new captain, but at the end of the day I'm not going to give it up easily. There are the European championships to come and then maybe another World Cup.

Evelyn Waugh

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Penelope Lively

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

Penelope Lively

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

J. K. Rowling

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Anthony Trollope

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Dean Inge

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Dean Inge

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Jonathan Zittrain

(With the DMCA) you have the sword of Damocles,

Tom Cech

It's kind of a double-edged sword for these farmers.

Jim Butcher

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

Rasim Ljajic

This threat hangs like a sword over our necks.