Rust Quotes

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

Death, Nothing, Motion

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison

Sunday, Away, Whole

If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Bishop Robert South

Heart, Last, Conscience

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

Passion, Away, Envious

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.
Keith Moon

Air, Survivor, Titanic

Better to burn out than rust out.
Neil Young

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Milan Kundera

Change, Great, Movement

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
Neil Young

I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
Dan Rather

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Ezra Cornell

Mind, Human, Idleness

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler

Mind, Enemy, Him

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

Thought, Sword, Spade

It is better to rust out than wear out.
Edwin Markham

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

Truth, Tell, Bit

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

Best, Through, Soul

I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.
Fritz Hollings

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
Ali Smith

Work, Try, Call

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
Victor Davis Hanson

War, After, Storm

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!
Matthias Schoenaerts

Experience, Sad, Loved

New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Jane Howard

Old, Forged, Links

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
Vinny Testaverde

Good, Finish, Performer

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