Quotes of Knife - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For all who draw the sword will die by the sword. ”

- Bible

“ Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. ”

- Mother Jones

“ Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To cut a whetstone with a razor. ”

- Andrew Fletcher

“ Obession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases… the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it… You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts. ”

- Stephen King

“ There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug… especially when it's waving a hunting knife in your eyes. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife. ”

- Hilary J. Bader

“ The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood. ”

- Buddha

“ God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade. ”

- Langenhoven

“ If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ”

- Sam Snead

“ A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ”

- Elwyn Brooks White

“ Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife. ”

- Margaret Witter Fuller

“ Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life! ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. ”

- Charles Buxton

“ The tongue is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. ”

- Anne Seaton

“ Violence of the tongue is very real-sharper than any knife. ”

- Harold Ross

“ 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

“ Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. ”

- John Cheever
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