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Familiar Quotations

Iron

Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked, in the head, by an iron boot? Of course you don't--no one does--that never happens.–Airplane

Love is the only fire hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature's will.–Anonymous

Why do steam irons have a permanent press setting?–Anonymous

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.–Isaac Babel

The fineness and strength essential to our best being, and to make us do our work, come by the hammer and the fire, by the thorn in the flesh, the trouble and pain in our life, which may act in us as the fire acts in the iron, welding the fiber afresh.–Robert Collyer

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.–Andrel Gromyko

I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality.–Peter Hall

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.–Ernest Hemingway

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.–Aldous Huxley

To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.–John F. Kennedy

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Iron 1
• Iron – "Chain" 2
• Iron – "Chains" 2
• Iron – "Firm" 2
• Iron – "Hard" 2
• Use in Literature 4
• Iron 4
• Iron – "Ancient" 16
• Iron – "Appearance" 17
• Iron – "Arms" 18
• Iron – "Badly" 20
• Iron – "Bar" 20
• Iron – "Bare" 23
• Iron – "Beams" 24
• Iron – "Beat" 24
• Iron – "Beautiful" 25
• Iron – "Bed" 25
• Iron – "Behind" 26
• Iron – "Being" 27
• Iron – "Best" 28
• Iron – "Beyond" 29
• Iron – "Big" 29
• Iron – "Blood" 30
• Iron – "Blow" 31
• Iron – "Body" 31
• Iron – "Box" 32
• Iron – "Brass" 33
• Iron – "Broken" 34
• Iron – "Brown" 35
• Iron – "Building" 35
• Iron – "Cage" 36
• Iron – "Called" 36
• Iron – "Carried" 37
• Iron – "Case" 38
• Iron – "Cast" 39
• Iron – "Caught" 40
• Iron – "Cause" 40
• Iron – "Chief" 41
• Iron – "Closing" 41
• Iron – "Coal" 42
• Iron – "Cold" 43
• Iron – "Constitution" 44
• Iron – "Construction" 45
• Iron – "Copper" 46
• Iron – "Corner" 47
• Iron – "Country" 47
• Iron – "Covered" 48
• Iron – "Cut" 48
• Iron – "Dark" 49
• Iron – "Day" 50
• Iron – "Done" 51
• Iron – "Doors" 51
• Iron – "Doubtless" 54
• Iron – "Drawing" 55
• Iron – "Dream" 56
• Iron – "Easy" 56
• Iron – "Effect" 57
• Iron – "Employed" 58
• Iron – "End" 58
• Iron – "Enter" 59
• Iron – "Eye" 61
• Iron – "Fall" 62
• Iron – "Far" 62
• Iron – "Father" 63
• Iron – "Foot" 64
• Iron – "Felt" 66
• Iron – "Few" 67
• Iron – "Figure" 68
• Iron – "Finally" 69
• Iron – "Fingers" 69
• Iron – "Fire" 70
• Iron – "Forges" 71
• Iron – "Formed" 72
• Iron – "Found" 73
• Iron – "Frame" 75
• Iron – "Gates" 76
• Iron – "Girls" 77
• Iron – "Glowed" 78
• Iron – "Go" 78
• Iron – "Gold" 79
• Iron – "Gone" 80
• Iron – "Grating" 81
• Iron – "Great" 82
• Iron – "Hair" 86
• Iron – "Hammer" 86
• Iron – "Hand" 87
• Iron – "Having" 90
• Iron – "Head" 91
• Iron – "Heard" 92
• Iron – "Heart" 92
• Iron – "Heat" 93
• Iron – "Heavily" 94
• Iron – "Help" 97
• Iron – "Herself" 97
• Iron – "Hold" 98
• Iron – "Horse" 99
• Iron – "Hot" 99
• Iron – "Hours" 101
• Iron – "Houses" 102
• Iron – "Husband" 103
• Iron – "Industry" 103
• Iron – "Keep" 104
• Iron – "Laid" 105
• Iron – "Large" 106
• Iron – "Lead" 108
• Iron – "Left" 109
• Iron – "Leg" 110
• Iron – "Lining" 111
• Iron – "Little" 112
• Iron – "Locked" 115
• Iron – "Looking" 116
• Iron – "Magnet" 117
• Iron – "Made" 119
• Iron – "Men" 124
• Iron – "Manner" 130
• Iron – "Mass" 131
• Iron – "Means" 132
• Iron – "Metals" 133
• Iron – "Mineral" 134
• Iron – "Money" 135
• Iron – "Morning" 135
• Iron – "Mother" 136
• Iron – "Movements" 136
• Iron – "Narrow" 137
• Iron – "Nature" 138
• Iron – "Near" 139
• Iron – "Night" 139
• Iron – "Nothing" 140
• Iron – "Objection" 141
• Iron – "Observed" 141
• Iron – "Old" 141
• Iron – "Once" 143
• Iron – "Opened" 144
• Iron – "Order" 145
• Iron – "Pain" 146
• Iron – "Part" 147
• Iron – "Passage" 148
• Iron – "People" 149
• Iron – "Piece" 150
• Iron – "Placed" 151
• Iron – "Plainly" 154
• Iron – "Plates" 154
• Iron – "Poet" 155
• Iron – "Point" 156
• Iron – "Poor" 156
• Iron – "Pot" 157
• Iron – "Present" 158
• Iron – "Prisoner" 159
• Iron – "Proved" 159
• Iron – "Railing" 159
• Iron – "Readily" 161
• Iron – "Ring" 161
• Iron – "Road" 162
• Iron – "Roofs" 163
• Iron – "Room" 164
• Iron – "Roped" 165
• Iron – "Ruled" 165
• Iron – "Run" 166
• Iron – "Rust" 167
• Iron – "Sending" 168
• Iron – "Sharp" 168
• Iron – "Ships" 169
• Iron – "Show" 170
• Iron – "Side" 171
• Iron – "Single" 173
• Iron – "Sitting" 174
• Iron – "Smoke" 175
• Iron – "Soon" 175
• Iron – "Sound" 177
• Iron – "Space" 178
• Iron – "Spike" 178
• Iron – "Spring" 179
• Iron – "Square" 179
• Iron – "Stairs" 180
• Iron – "Stand" 180
• Iron – "State" 181
• Iron – "Steel" 182
• Iron – "Step" 183
• Iron – "Sternly" 184
• Iron – "Stones" 184
• Iron – "Story" 186
• Iron – "Streets" 186
• Iron – "Strength" 187
• Iron – "Strongest" 188
• Iron – "Sulphur" 189
• Iron – "Sun" 190
• Iron – "Tall" 191
• Iron – "Thick" 191
• Iron – "Things" 192
• Iron – "Thought" 194
• Iron – "Thrust" 195
• Iron – "Thus" 195
• Iron – "Times" 197
• Iron – "Tried" 198
• Iron – "Used" 198
• Iron – "Walls" 201
• Iron – "Water" 203
• Iron – "Weapon" 205
• Iron – "Weary" 206
• Iron – "Weight" 207
• Iron – "Whatever" 207
• Iron – "Wheels" 208
• Iron – "Window" 208
• Iron – "Wire" 210
• Iron – "Women" 210
• Iron – "Wood" 211
• Iron – "Words" 212
• Iron – "Workers" 212
• Iron – "Young" 216
• Iron – "Youth" 217
• Nonfiction Usage 218
• Lyrical Usage 218
• Script Usage 218
• Historical Usage 220
• Spoken Usage 220
• Presidential Usage 220
• Bible Usage 220
• Qur'anic Usage 226
• Journalism Usage 226
• Legal Usage 229
• Governmental Usage 240
• Patent Usage 252
• Encyclopedic Usage 333
• Lexicographic Usage 418
• Index 560