Quotes About Corrosion

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence

Time heals everything apart from corrosion.

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

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

The daily venom of the Duchesse's jealousy had corroded his self-control. It was as if an oak tree that had defied storms and woodsmen had fallen at last under the incessant hammerings of a woodpecker." -p. 299

The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

The bad thing about galvanized pipes is they rust, and over the years they can get corroded. It's just kinda gross.

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that's put to use more gold begets.

I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

A black Chevy coupe with acne corrosion passed in the opposite direction, and two aging black pickups.

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words themselves will be corroded too.

Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words will be corroded too.

A passagem do tempo, nunca deixa de fazer suas vítimas, sempre transforma o que era sublime em matéria para comédia. O que afinal fica corroído? Se o exterior é corroído, será verdade, então, que o sublime pertence por natureza apenas a um exterior que esconde um cerne cômico? Ou será que o sublime pertence de fato ao todo, mas acaba coberto por uma poeira ridícula?

Since Lake Erie water can eat through a human body in under three minutes, a wood or aluminum boat in ten and a steel hull in twenty-five, this resort couldn't offer much by way of the usual swimming and boating

He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarreled so much they had finally, always, with the corrosion of the quarreling, killed what they had together. He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

Los estúpidos se conservan mejor físicamente porque no los corroe la ansiedad existencial a la que se ve sometida la gente más o menos lúcida.

The acids of modernity brought about by modern philosophy were just as corrosive for traditional religion as were the ones created by the new sciences.

The lie is a termite; it causes suddenly collapsing.

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

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

An iron does not rust of its own for it requires oxygen, chloride and moisture from the environment to corrode. Similarly, a citizen's life remains robust until the surrounding is vitiated from all around.

Material dust in mind acts like only rust for it corrodes the thinking prowess of a person who then can't even identity the people worth to own trust.