(22 quotes found)
“And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.”
William Shakespeare
“Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.”
“Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing”
Fran Lebowitz
“Don't use an axe to embroider”
Malaysian Proverb
“I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishing I was somewhere else, somebody else, richer or more famous. I was happy and secure with who I was, what I was and where I was. I didn't have to have what they all had.”
Dirk Benedict
“I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.”
Gregory Peck
“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
“Actually, we brought one of the chief's a brand new axe, and that's how we made the deal.”
Richard Seivert
“It's possible that they didn't make hand axes because they didn't know how. But there's no good local source of flint, either. What we're probably looking at are river cobbles.”
Christopher Stringer
