130 Quotes About Iron

  • Author Gary Cannon
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    Once they iron out all the wrinkles and get it all synergized, we'll have better focus.

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  • Author Geoffrey Chaucer
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    I wol yow telle, as was me taught also, The foure spirites and the bodies sevene, By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene. The firste spirit quiksilver called is, The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis, Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon. The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon: Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe, Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe, Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin, And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

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  • Author Jeanne Calment
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    I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

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  • Author Joseph Chamberlain
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    Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

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  • Author Thomas Carlyle
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    The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

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  • Author Isaac Disraeli
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    After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

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  • Author John Dryden
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    We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

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  • Author Katherine Dunn
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    Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

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  • Author Benjamin Franklin
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    An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

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