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This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. -- George Herbert
God grinds the axes he intends to use. -- Dave Sim
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. -- Ted Dexter
What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder. -- Art Blakey
The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. -- Charles Dickens
Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men. -- Victor LaValle
Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of. -- Kathryn Kuhlman
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function. -- Ken Knabb
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas Holcroft
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. -- Emily Bronte
We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds -- Elspeth Huxley
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ... -- Henrik Ibsen
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. -- Thomas Huxley
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. -- Edwin Markham
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt. -- Trevor Baylis
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night. -- Gertrude Stein
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God. -- Mieczyslaw Jastrun
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will. -- James Thomson
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly. -- Catherynne M. Valente
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face. -- May Sarton

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