Blunt Quote by John Lyly

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

— Zoroaster

A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

— Isocrates

“A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.”

— Charles H Spurgeon

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

— Diablo Cody

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

— Agnes Repplier

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice…

— Horace

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

— Julie Orringer

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

— John Flavel

“What we did not say was that with these hurts an edge was worn down. It happens out of necessity -- it would not…

— Joan Wickersham

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to…

— Don Shula

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

— Evan Esar