Example Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“What might seem a careless phrase for one can cut deep as a blade for another.”

— Cora Carmack

“Don’t cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite…

— Charlotte Brontë

“From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.”

— Immanuel Kant

“As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

— Neal Stephenson

As the saying goes, when you`re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

— Chuck Todd

“The word is “like a knife” because it can be used as a tool or weapon.”

— Ice Cube

“My granny used to say if you’re too sharp you’ll cut yourself,”

— Terry Pratchett

The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets,…

— Gautama Buddha

“It was like that old riddle about replacing the handle of an axe, and later the head—when you were done, was it a new…

— Marcus Sakey

“Carpenters don’t make their saws and hammers, tailors don’t make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don’t make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make…

— Daniel C. Dennett

“Look to the plank of wood in your own eye before you remove the mote of sawdust from mine”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

— Mercedes Lackey