99 Rust Quotes

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Famous Rust Quotes

Rest breeds rust. - Proverbs

Rest breeds rust. — Proverbs

It is better to rust out than wear out. — George Whitefield

And the rest is rust and stardust. - Vladimir Nabokov

And the rest is rust and stardust. — Vladimir Nabokov

If you rest, you rust. - Helen Hayes

If you rest, you rust. — Helen Hayes

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. — Wilder Penfield

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius. — Seneca

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. — Owen Felltham

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves. — Owen Feltham

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. — Leonardo da Vinci

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God. — Muhammad

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. - Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. — Joseph Addison

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. — Benjamin Franklin

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness. — Plato

Short Rust Quotes

  • Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument. — Benedict of Nursia
  • Gold doesn't get rusted. — Turkish Proverbs
  • A wheel that turns gathers no rust — Greek Proverbs
  • I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that. — Matthew McConaughey
  • I would rather burn out than rust out. — Amy Carmichael
  • The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel. — Pierre Berton
  • I would rather wear out than rust out. — George Whitefield
  • The key that is used does not rust. — Albanian Proverbs
  • I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes? — W. C. Fields
  • Better to wear out than rust out. — Jack LaLanne

Rust Image Quotes

Rust quote Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

Iron Rust Quotes

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can! — Ratan Tata

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust. — Daniel Mendelsohn

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone — Oscar Wilde

I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on. — Margaret Thatcher

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. — Robert South

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. — Bishop Robert South

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. — Antisthenes

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. — Danish proverb

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease. — Menander

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? — Geoffrey Chaucer

Rest Is Rust Quotes

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust — Vladimir Nabokov

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work. — Elbert Hubbard

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute. — Max Planck

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain. — Thomas Traherne

Trust Rust Quotes

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. — Unknown

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. — Tryon Edwards

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . . — Geoffrey Chaucer

If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is Like a blade. — Tite Kubo

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices — Henry Ward Beecher

Iron Quotes

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now — Bernie Sanders

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What gets measured gets managed. — Peter Drucker

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom. — Harry Houdini

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. — Otto von Bismarck

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. - Unknown Author

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. — Bill Gates

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More Rust Quotes

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust. — Alexander Pushkin

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. — Henry David Thoreau

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

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. — Maya Angelou

The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But anyway of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of Allah's message. — Martin Lings

May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather. — Edward Ramsay

I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it! — Dave Mustaine

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out. — Colonel Sanders

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. — Theodore Roosevelt

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash. — Keith Moon

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. — William Shakespeare

We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust. — Joan Baez

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. — Matthew McConaughey

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence. — Francois FeNelon

If you don't run, you rust. — Tom Petty

Waiting is the rust of the soul. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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