Corrosion Resistance Quotes

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

Steel is needed everywhere.

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.

I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.