Have An Axe To Grind Quotes

#1. 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

#2. PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.

Samuel Johnson

#3. I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

Steve-O

#4. He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

Hermann Hesse

#5. 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

#6. The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-General rose to spin the rope, grind the axe, and hammer the nails into the scaffold.

Charles Dickens

#7. We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#8. I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

George Santayana

#9. I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.

Mary Howard

#10. A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind.

Chris I. Naylor