1.
I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
Erwin Rommel
I would prefer to be the aggressor rather than the recipient.
2.
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
Charles Spurgeon
The Divine Decree is the hammer that shatters the judgments of humanity.
4.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
5.
We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
Charles Schumer
6.
Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
Isaac Newton
7.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
8.
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
George Orwell
9.
We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.
Daniel Gillies
10.
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Emile Zola
11.
I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.
Joel Greenblatt
12.
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.
Sara Genn
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Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
Neal A. Maxwell
15.
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
Voltaire
18.
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
Pindar
19.
This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
John Calvin
20.
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.
Leland Stanford
21.
It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.
M. M. Pallam Raju
22.
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Freya Stark
23.
I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
Angie Harmon
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Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.
Elizabeth Haydon
25.
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
Horace
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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.
Lloyd Alexander