Anvil Quotes
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
Anne Bradstreet