Axe Quotes

131 quotes by 110 authors

The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with… — Sathya Sai Baba
Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for… — Nanao Sakaki
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move… — Henry Ward Beecher
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge… — Henry David Thoreau
You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons...and they have to just move. — Ueli Steck
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my… — Phineas Quimby
It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. — Walter Lippmann
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. — Fran Lebowitz
The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative,… — Jim Bailey
Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me. — Robert Cray
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. — Friedrich Schiller
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows… — Anton Chekhov
The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect.… — Francis Schaeffer
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? — William Shakespeare
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. — William Shakespeare
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck,… — James Agee
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual,… — Arthur Lismer
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in… — Hooman Majd
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old… — Stephen Leacock
At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I… — Al Franken

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