strike quotes

Don't iron while the strike is hot.

-Anonymous
  Women's liberation slogan, quoted in PBS broadcast, 26  Jan.

The General Strike has taught the working classes more in four days than years of talking could have done.

- ArthurJames Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour
  Speech in the House of Commons,7 May.

Si j'e  cris quatre mots, j'en effacerai trois. If I write four words, I strike out three of them.

- Nicolas Boileau (Despre  aux)
  Satire no.2  A M Molie'  re.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time.

- (John) Calvin Coolidge
  Telegram to the President of the  American Federation of Labor, while Coolidge was Governor of Massachusetts during the Boston police strike.

Weaponsgrow rusty if unused, and a Union which never strikes may lose the ability to organise a formidable strike, so that its threats become less effective.

- SirJohn Richard Hicks
  The Theory of  Wages (2nd edn).

Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 30  Apr, quoting an old college tutor. Collected in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

- Alexander Pope
  Of Addison.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.201^4.

  If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, evenattheriskof maiming itfor life. A blow incold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: How to Beat Children'.

The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew isgambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favour of England because you were born in it?

- George Bernard Shaw
  Captain Shotover. Heartbreak House, act 3.

   He hath awakened from the dream of life 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais, stanza 39.