(359 quotes found)
“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.”
William Shakespeare
“How ironic that foreign lands are stumbling to the light while we are striving mightily to put it out.”
Roy Traband
“Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.”
Virginia Woolf
“It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL,”
Wayne Gretzky
“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”
King Solomon
“My wife has a whim of iron”
Oliver Herford
“Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.”
Carolyn Heilbrun
“Strike while the iron is hot”
Proverb
“As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.”
William Howard Taft
“A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle”
Chinese Proverbs