The anvil fears no blows. [ Proverb ]
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought! [ Longfellow ]
Between the hammer and the anvil.
One must be either anvil or hammer. [ German Proverb ]
When you are anvil, hold you still,
When you are hammer, strike your fill. [ Proverb ]
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. [ Pindar ]
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. [ French Proverb ]
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
He gives one knock on the iron and two on the anvil. [ Proverb ]
When many strike on an anvil, they must observe order. [ Proverb ]
Art thou anvil, be patient; art thou hammer, strike hard. [ German Proverb ]
Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon. [ St Ignatius ]
You must strike in measure when there are many to strike on one anvil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To keep a custom, you hammer the anvil still, though you have no iron. [ Proverb ]
When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [ Boileau ]
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. [ J. G. Holland ]
Harsh cousels have little or no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. [ Helvetius ]
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. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]