Anvil Quotes

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

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.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

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

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

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.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

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

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.