Mark Twain Quotes, Knives Quotes, Civilization Quotes

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Mean Quotes , Knives Quotes

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Math Quotes , Knives Quotes

I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Knives Quotes

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Knives Quotes , Cake Quotes

Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Pain Quotes , Knives Quotes

His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Knives Quotes , Losing Quotes

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Children Quotes , Knives Quotes

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Knives Quotes

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Night Quotes , Knives Quotes

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wind Quotes , Knives Quotes

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Knives Quotes , Forgiving Quotes

The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Knives Quotes

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sad Quotes , Knives Quotes

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

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Tags : Abel Ferrara Quotes , Knives Quotes , Balance Quotes