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- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
- Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau
- Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott,… — Ben Affleck
- Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the… — Philip Sidney
- I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers. — William Shakespeare
- Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by… — Omar Khayyam
- As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to… — Thomas Merton
- A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck — W.C. Fields
- When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,… — Leo Tolstoy