Top 80 Anvil Quotes & Sayings

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal. He did not think he was particularly vain, but the questions were growing tiresome. "A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?" "Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing." "As if he dashed into an anvil." "Pay no attention," Harriet said to him. "She lacks imagination.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

My father is the reason I'm a wrestler today. He was trained by Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart, and competed under the names Billy the Kid and Elvis Wesley on the Florida Independent scene.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.