Scythe Quotes by Annie Besant

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• Before falling to the scythe the weeds enjoy a little breeze. — Peter Levitt
• I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable… — Christopher Hitchens
• A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
• Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however,… — Federico Fellini
• The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy… — James Shirley
• Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging… — Francois Arago
• Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare
• In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant
• Occupation is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like… — Markus Zusak
• Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett

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