Axe Quotes

131 quotes by 110 authors

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by… — Lord Byron
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of… — John B. S. Haldane
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. — William Shakespeare
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. — John Milton
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement… — George Orwell
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by… — Victor Hugo
You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use… — Horace Kephart
Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe. — Rodney Dangerfield
Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe,… — Mahasi Sayadaw
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he… — Aldo Leopold
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once… — Eliza R. Snow
The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen… — Mors Kochanski
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an… — Hilary Mantel
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia. — Aneurin Bevan
The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice… — Charles Spurgeon

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