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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. — Edsger Dijkstra

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. — Andrew Marvell

I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation. — Mary Howard

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. — Thomas Paine

Can a split quill write fair script?
Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire?
Can a cripple please a lady? — Juliet Marillier

He might make it, even if all I really did was hit him in the head with an axe. — Richard Hooker

By this axe I rule! — Robert E. Howard

For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights. — John Smit

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer. — Sharon Osbourne

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 skin Wind for mind. — Nanao Sakaki

I need to make sure Chris isn't an axe murderer who lures women with the whole "I can fix the camera your friend's cat peed on" line, so I Google him. — Lauren Blakely

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. — Franz Kafka

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

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish. — George Santayana

Ren-Hey ... Anju ... Under the bed ...
Anju-Oh ...
There's a blonde guy with an axe,right?
He's a new friend.
Ren-A ghost? — Yuna Kagesaki

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 could let my own beliefs out. — Al Franken

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln

You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons ... and they have to just move. — Ueli Steck

Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall. — John Marsden

Axe's erection was instantaneous, and he kept himself facing her as it rose. Even — J.R. Ward

victorious." "The headsman feels if the axe be[85] sharp." "Take care lest you be deceived." "Judge — Huber Gray Buehler

My love for my mother is like an axe. It cuts very deep. — Deborah Levy

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land. — Aldo Leopold

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con. — Steve-O

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down. — Bob Marley

I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe. — George R R Martin

She got injun fire in her blood, as I hear tell it, and it seem to me Lucy about ripe to snap a crack in that jumping bean she call a head. — Ojo Blacke

I took an axe
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept. — Carol Ann Duffy

The Professor gripped his axe, having pulled it, with some difficulty, from the boy's head. — Neil Davies

Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood. — Philip Larkin

She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips. — George R R Martin

You're the only man I know willing to jump from the top floor of a skyscraper, naked with an axe just to get the bad guy - Selena — David Gallie

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us. — Franz Kafka

Undoreth, we. Battle-born. Raise hammer, raise axe, at our war-shout gods tremble. — Mark Lawrence

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out. — Robert Moog

Poverty is poverty, whether the tool you work with is a pick-axe or fountain pen. — George Orwell

Truth is an axe. Without judgement it's swung in great circles, wounding everybody, — Mark Lawrence

You see," she said, "with the axe, it's easier to get ahead. . . . — Brandon Sanderson

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. — Franz Kafka

A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind. — Chris I. Naylor

If you are strong, torture not the weak,
And thus lay not the axe to thy empire. — Guru Gobind Singh

Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it. — Lana Axe

Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot. — Ian Fleming

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood. — Victor Hugo

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us. — Franz Kafka

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

The biggest trees look intimidating until you swing your axe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. — John Milton

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. — Honore De Balzac

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 them. — Henry Ward Beecher

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln

An axe without a blade is just a stick. — Anthony Ryan

JEAN
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
HARRINGTON
Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common. — Preston Sturges

I'm the new age miner,
going to work at the company's
gold mines, where they charge me
for the pick axe — Phil Volatile

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. — Sylvester Stallone

Bone broth contains potassium and glycine, which support both cellular and liver detoxification. — Josh Axe

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it. — Horace Kephart

It's a trick. Get an axe." - Ash, Army of Darkness — Pete Kahle

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads. — Phil Anselmo

Habits are a lot harder to kill than people.
~ Axe Cooper — Vered Ehsani

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. — Walter Lippmann

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. — Nikolai Gogol

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

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe. — Michel Leiris

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. — Franz Kafka

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. — H.P. Lovecraft

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein

The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes. — George R R Martin

Shagga, cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats." Shagga hefted the huge double-bladed axe. "There are no goats, Halfman." "Make do. — George R R Martin

When the axe entered the forest, the trees said to each other: do not worry, the handle in that axe is one of us. — Amish Tripathi

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets. — John Amaechi

Girl with a pie, I'll call it. It's almost like guy with an axe, if you squint hard enough. — Charlotte Stein

I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream. — Marc Jacobs

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line. — Robin McKinley

If we remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we will not be so ready to build our nests in them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You cannot grasp a lie with your hand,
but it can destroy more than an axe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I may be a simple man, but I am very good with an axe. — Daniel H. Wilson

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. — J.M. Coetzee

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. — William Shakespeare

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us. — Rand Paul

The leaves, they run like mice, while birds peck at the ground. The wood has rotted in its bin. The grim axe has come round — Andre Alexis

A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. — Fran Lebowitz

The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe — Andy Andrews

Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe. — L. Frank Baum

What do you say when a seven-and-a-half-foot-tall woman walks into a room with a battle axe and tongues on a hook? Absolutely nothing. — Pierce Brown

Nadir we, youth born, axe wielders, blood letters, victors still. — David Gemmell

When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe. — Alyssa Sutherland

When making an axe handle
the pattern is not far off. — Gary Snyder

With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops. — Elise Allen

Here's a man ready to chop another man's self-esteem to pieces with an axe, yet he cries out in pain when his own is pricked with a needle. — Alexandre Dumas

If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude. — Ralphie May

No metal can
no, not the hangman's axe
bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. — William Shakespeare

My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers. — Dean Koontz

The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not. — Bayode Ojo

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. — Anne Bradstreet

There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work. — Dov Davidoff

PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words. — Samuel Johnson