Quote by Robin Hobb

“Garden shears would be wonderful. Also an ax. I bet axes were awesome for working out aggression. Probably fantastic for building upper body strength…

— Kylie Scott

“That bit where that lad sprang backwards right across the room with them axes in his hands was impressive, though." "Yeah." "You didn't ought…

— Terry Pratchett

“Why do we love to grind our axes so much? How does schlepping that heavy load of medieval weaponry around affect those we encounter…

— David Beem

“The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“I can think of no people more fragmented... Craftsmen you see, but no humans, thinkers, but no humans, priests, but no humans, lords and…

— Friedrich Holderlin

“A man ain't a goddamn axe, choppin', hackin', bustin' every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down,…

— Toni Morrison

“Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not until you’ve seen a red gaping…

— Mark Lawrence

“There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time,…

— Anthony de Mello

“Sticks and stones may break my bones’, as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world…

— Joanne Harris

“Only the bones remain, Ring, and they pave the continent with the residue of sorrow, each death piling on the last in a tower…

— Terry Maggert

“The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there--…

— Joseph Conrad

“A civilization for ever within easy reach of a blade had little to boast about.”

— Steven Erikson