Strike while the iron is hot. [ Proverb ]

Strike the iron whilst it is hot. [ Rabelais ]

O how beautiful is morning!
How the sunbeams strike the daisies
And the kingcups fill the meadow
Like a golden-shielded army
Marching to the uplands fair. [ D. M. Mulock ]

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow
In the brain as mischief or remorse. [ Barry Cornwall ]

When you are anvil, hold you still,
When you are hammer, strike your fill. [ Proverb ]

Strike the dog dead! it's but a critic. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Give me a look, give me a face.
That makes simplicity a grace:
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. [ Ben Jonson ]

It is easier to strike than defend well. [ Proverb ]

Strike, brave boys, and take your turns. [ William Shakespeare ]

A single little word can strike him dead. [ Luther ]

For whom ill is fated, him it will strike. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

The wreck of things will strike him unmoved. [ Horace ]

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch enchanter's wand! itself a nothing!
But taking sorcery from the master hand.
To paralyze the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Men in rage strike those that wish them best. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. [ Pope ]

Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute.
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]

They know the time to go!
The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour
In field and woodland, and each punctual flower
Bows at the signal an obedient head
And hastes to bed. [ Susan Coolidge ]

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. [ Pope ]

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. [ Pope ]

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
Tidings of good to Zion. [ Charles Lamb ]

If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man. [ Young ]

These wickets of the soul are placed so high,
Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
And that they may not pierce too violently,
They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch. [ Sir John Davies ]

I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed;
But I shall, in a more continuate time,
Strike off this score of absence. [ William Shakespeare ]

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. [ Metastasio ]

He that strikes my dog, would strike me if he durst. [ Proverb ]

When many strike on an anvil, they must observe order. [ Proverb ]

When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. [ German Proverb ]

When you organise a strike, it is war you organise;
But to organise our labour were the labour of the wise. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

Art thou anvil, be patient; art thou hammer, strike hard. [ German Proverb ]

He's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. [ William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Sc.1 ]

It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand. [ Proverb ]

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. [ Byron ]

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. [ Cromwell ]

You must strike in measure when there are many to strike on one anvil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. [ Sharp ]

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. [ Beethoven ]

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. [ Kant ]

Men of wit. learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. [ Swift ]

To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold. [ Geibel ]

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. [ Dr. I. Watts ]

We can take up no scheme, however wild and impracticable, but it will strike off some flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge. [ Ward Beecher ]

When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]

Even out of a cloudless heaven the flaming thunderbolt may strike; therefore in thy days of joy have a fear of the spiteful neighbourhood of misfortune. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. [ Colton ]

The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]