“Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.”
Bible
“That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith; I am the LORD.”
“Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith”
Michel de Montaigne
“Talk about the pews and steeples/ And the cash that goes therewith!/ But the souls of Christian peoples . . ./ Chuck it, Smith!”
G. K. Chesterton
“Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.”
“Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith”
Thomas Carlyle
