Top 85 An Axe Quotes
#1. A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down
Gautama Buddha
#2. Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.
Fran Lebowitz
#3. I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.
Wendell Berry
#4. I seemed to have only two speeds on problems that hit me emotionally, either putting my fingers in my ears and going la-la-la, or picking up an axe and attacking the issue.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#5. Oh, what is brighter than the light?
What is darker than the night?
What is keener than an axe?
What is softer than melting wax?
Truth is brighter than the light,
Falsehood darker than the night.
Revenge is keener than an axe,
And love is softer than melting wax.
Cassandra Clare
#6. I want you to slip it under Mademoiselle d'Albon's chamber door. If she opens it and throws an axe at you, come and tell me. If not, you may go back to bed.
Dorothy Dunnett
#7. Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe.
Brian South
#8. You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No offence, Svengal."
Svengal shrugged. "None taken. It's a pretty accurate description of Erak on a raid, as a matter of fact.
John Flanagan
#9. It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.
William Merritt Chase
#10. I took an axe
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept.
Carol Ann Duffy
#11. For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?
William Shakespeare
#13. Who runs a combination cat shelter and hostel?" Keith asked. "With the cat shelter being the primary function? Only people who want to kill you with an axe and then put you in the garden and build a shed on you, that's who.
Maureen Johnson
#14. At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.
Al Franken
#15. My love for my mother is like an axe. It cuts very deep.
Deborah Levy
#16. When it comes to overcoming writing hurdles, getting sick is like suffering a review from a critic with an axe to grind; you can't let it get you down!
Max Hawthorne
#17. You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."
"Oh I believe it," I said, thinking back to the time Angeline had forgotten her locker's combination and tried to get into it with an axe.
No one was really sure where she'd gotten it from.
Richelle Mead
#18. You cannot grasp a lie with your hand,
but it can destroy more than an axe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. This is it." Morgan gestured to the French doors like she was modeling a prize on a game show. "Here we have door number one. Will it lead our contestant to the dog-faced man of her dreams? Or will she find an axe-wielding psychopath? Stay tuned.
Cole Gibsen
#20. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.
Rumi
#21. A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind.
Chris I. Naylor
#22. Cordelia glared at me. 'I expect if someone strapped you to table an swung an axe over your naked quivering flesh like The Pit and the Pendulum, you'd be correcting his grammar'.
Victoria Clayton
#23. Bring me an axe and spade,
Bring me a winding-sheet;
When I my grave have made
Let winds and tempests beat:
Then down I'll lie as cold as clay.
True love doth pass away!
William Blake
#24. I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.
Edward Ruscha
#26. After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.
R.D. Ronald
#27. Kafka said, A book
must be an axe
for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds
great, but what good
is an axe against
a frozen sea?
Perhaps this is why
he said, while dying,
Destroy everything.
Matt Rasmussen
#28. It's a trick. Get an axe." - Ash, Army of Darkness
Pete Kahle
#31. Somehow she managed to survive and dig herself out and - "
"And somehow get back to the farm and swing an axe into Zalachenko's skull," Blomkvist finished for him. "She can be a moody bitch.
Stieg Larsson
#32. Here's a man ready to chop another man's self-esteem to pieces with an axe, yet he cries out in pain when his own is pricked with a needle.
Alexandre Dumas
#33. A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
J.M. Coetzee
#34. Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel- or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good- and as bad- as the man who carries it. Remember that.
Jack Schaefer
#35. Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I
ever been, an axe murderer."
"I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.
Nora Roberts
#36. Aunt Hyacinth's protections around the house would stop a spirit. They wouldn't do anything against an axe murderer except make him queasy, which didn't seem like it would be much of a deterrent. I mean, a strong stomach probably came with the job.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#37. The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
Franz Kafka
#38. In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.
Sylvester Stallone
#39. My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
Adam DeVine
#40. You're the only man I know willing to jump from the top floor of a skyscraper, naked with an axe just to get the bad guy - Selena
David Gallie
#41. I need to make sure Chris isn't an axe murderer who lures women with the whole "I can fix the camera your friend's cat peed on" line, so I Google him.
Lauren Blakely
#42. Truth is an axe. Without judgement it's swung in great circles, wounding everybody,
Mark Lawrence
#43. On the other side of the curtain, children were squabbling, a baby was crying, and there was the smell of rat-and-cabbage casserole. Someone was sharpening an axe. And someone else was snoring. For a dwarf in Ankh-Morpork, solitude was something that you had to cultivate on the inside. Books
Terry Pratchett
#44. Girl with a pie, I'll call it. It's almost like guy with an axe, if you squint hard enough.
Charlotte Stein
#45. It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.
Walter Lippmann
#46. If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.
Sharon Osbourne
#47. All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.
Isaiah
#48. Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#49. A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.
Franz Kafka
#50. Ren-Hey ... Anju ... Under the bed ...
Anju-Oh ...
There's a blonde guy with an axe,right?
He's a new friend.
Ren-A ghost?
Yuna Kagesaki
#51. If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.
Pete Seeger
#52. My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.
Dean Koontz
#53. he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.
Robin McKinley
#54. Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes.
George R R Martin
#55. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.
George R R Martin
#56. An axe struck him in the head. Pain screamed through him as shards of bone from his own skull drove into his brain.
"Bastard" he snarled as he wheeled around to his attacker, a burly Ramreel with a black snout and glowing red eyes. "You fucked up my Mohawk.
Larissa Ione
#57. When making an axe handle
the pattern is not far off.
Gary Snyder
#58. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
#59. Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.
Rodney Dangerfield
#60. Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.
Raymond Carver
#61. Yet now, having held in grief and resentment, and evaded thinking too much about the episode that changed my life with the finality of an axe, here I am exalted by having made use of it, by having spilled my guts in public. We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.
Wallace Stegner
#62. Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.
Ian Fleming
#64. A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Nikolai Gogol
#65. Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
Rumi
#66. Me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe.
mom: ...
me: i'm kidding about the axe part.
David Levithan
#67. So, if it's an axe weilding maniac reeking bloody havoc all over the neighborhood, exactly what are we going to defend ourselves with, our boners?
Callum to Jacob
Mark Alders
#68. Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.
Richard Proenneke
#69. He might make it, even if all I really did was hit him in the head with an axe.
Richard Hooker
#70. I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.
Scott McCloud
#71. Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#72. A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Franz Kafka
#73. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. Craster sprawls in his loft even now, stinking of wine and lost to sense. On his board below lies a sharp new axe. Were it me, I'd name it Answered Prayer' and make an end.
George R R Martin
#74. I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big crosscut saw and the axe, and while I'm getting my heat supply I'm working up an appetite that makes simple food just as appealing as anything a French chef could create.
Richard Proenneke
#75. Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
#76. An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
Honore De Balzac
#77. The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers.
Nick Clegg
#78. I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.
Malcolm X
#79. If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.
Ralphie May
#81. The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe
Andy Andrews
#82. It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.
L.M. Montgomery
#84. If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
Franz Kafka
#85. Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
