Home » Quote » W.B. Yeats » „Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.“ „Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.“ — W.B. Yeats Tags:Waiting Related quotes „We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!“ — Roald Dahl „All life was weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance for the cool that was soft and caressing like a woman's hand on a tired forehead.“ — F. Scott Fitzgerald „It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.“ — Robert Frost „One must wait till it comes.“ — Arthur Conan Doyle „Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats.“ — Hunter S. Thompson „Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.“ — Patricia Briggs