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A dull ax never loves grindstones. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose -- Fred Allen
I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. -- Andy Roddick
Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers. -- Steven Tyler
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. -- H. G. Wells
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas Holcroft
Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up. -- Zig Ziglar
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. -- Benjamin Franklin
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. -- Josh Billings
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out. -- Antoine Rivarol
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. -- Robert Reich
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man? -- Henry Ward Beecher
It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it. -- Chris Hadfield
First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of. -- Zig Ziglar
The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away. -- Charles Dickens
When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me. -- Ben Schwartz
I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories. -- T.C. Boyle
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them. -- Henry Ward Beecher
We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best. -- Rob Kall
One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me. -- Maurice Sendak
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last. -- Benjamin Franklin
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Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage. -- Carew Papritz

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