“Time's corrosive dewdrop eats
The giant warrior to a crust
Of earth in earth and rust in rust.”
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) English poet and critic
"A Danish Barrow".
“Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time”
— Leonard Cohen, book Flowers for Hitler
"Front Lawn", Flowers for Hitler (1964)
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Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Irshadul Qulub; Page 78
Shi'ite Hadith
“It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)
“Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord”
Walter Scott Harold the Dauntless
Harold the Dauntless (1817), Canto I, st. 4.
Context: Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord;
That which molders hemp and steel,
Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita
Variant: I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Source: Lolita
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Walter Scott book The Betrothed
The The Betrothed (1825), Volume I, Chapter XIII http://books.google.com/books?id=3w8OAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Too+much+rest+is+rust%22&pg=PA226#v=onepage