Top 251 Rust Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
The Rust Belt has suffered a lot because of trade deals.
New links must be forged as old ones rust.
And the rest is rust and stardust. — © Vladimir Nabokov
And the rest is rust and stardust.
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
Ring rust is real. I've experienced it myself.
With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Worry... is rust upon the blade.
Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.
I think ring rust is an excuse people use when they don't box well.
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
If you don't run, you rust.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — © Voltaire
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
I thought if I didn't write my own show, I'll rust.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.
Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.
If you rest, you rust.
I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there.
Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.
. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.
There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.
I don't really believe in that ring rust stuff.
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
Solitude may rust your words.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Ring rust doesn't affect me too much.
Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.
Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — © William Ralph Inge
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
It knocks the rust off, going against a guy like Kevin Love.
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
You always take rest over rust in the playoffs.
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. — © Samuel Johnson
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.
No fighter wants to risk getting ring rust.
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
Waiting is the rust of the soul.
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
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