Quotes About Rust

People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is to love, laugh, and work.

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.

I think as golfers, whenever you've had a long period off, you always sort of plan for a bit of rust. Not necessarily how you hit it, but just how you go about playing golf.

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.

liberty. "All politeness is owing to Liberty," he wrote. "We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Men's Understanding. 'Tis a destroying of Civility, Good Breeding, and even Charity itself. . . ." Shaftesbury

For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust -The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-

that first he wrought and afterward he taught. From the Gospel he took these words, and this metaphor he added likewise thereunto, that if gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.

For if a priest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste.

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

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

the heart which haunts the treasure-house where the moth and rust corrupt, will be exposed to the same ravages as the treasure, will itself be rusted and moth-eaten.

There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.

Its voice was the voice of clockwork mechanism, full of rust and oil, dust and dead spiders and fragments of macerated time.

In fact, Luther says the "great idol Mammon" has anointed "three trustees—rust, moths, and thieves"—that ought to remind us of the temporality of possessions.12

Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines

By recurrently changing the horizon, things can be perceived from another angle and the perspectives of life can be reoriented in a captivating way. If not, the squeaking wheel of our mind will suffer from lack of oil and our vision of the world gets rusted.

Worry is rust upon the blade.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.