“ In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the "blessing" of idleness and won for us the "curse" of labor. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that. ”
- Mary Pickford- Copy
- 898
“ Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. ”
- Pericles- Copy
- 3K
“ Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut. ”
- Benjamin J. Montalbano- Copy
- 2K
“ An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. ”
- Nancy Mitford- Copy
- 570
“ Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. ”
- Gwendolyn Brooks- Copy
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“ Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight. ”
- Ishikawa Takuboku- Copy
- 304
“ If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 415
“ Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife. ”
- Henry Glassford Bell- Copy
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“ New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut. ”
- Craig Kilborn- Copy
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“ How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 3K
“ It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. ”
- Charles Buxton- Copy
- 434
“ If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain? ”
- Aaron Allston- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can — No, not the hangman's axe — bear half the keenness Of thy sharp envy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
- 2.9K
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