Whetstone Quotes

#1. I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

Horace

#2. The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp.

Bonnie D. Ford

#3. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind ... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

George R R Martin

#4. Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Roger Ascham

#5. A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. I mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. - Tyrion Lannister

George R R Martin

#7. A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#8. A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Zoroaster

#9. Missing someone is the whetstone that sharpens want.

Leah Raeder

#10. A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George R R Martin

#11. Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

Aman Jassal

#12. Death sat in His garden, running a whetstone along the edge of His scythe. It was already so sharp that any passing breeze that blew across it was sliced smoothly into two puzzled zephyrs,

Terry Pratchett

#13. I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone
I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

Veronica Roth

#14. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

George R R Martin

#15. The outbreath is like a whetstone, and the mind is like the knife or sword that is being sharpened on that stone. When you sharpen a knife, you draw the blade of the knife across the sharpening stone. Following your outbreath is like drawing the blade of mind across the breath. Then

Chogyam Trungpa

#16. The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

Samuel Rutherford

#17. You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara)
You don't ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind ... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. Tyrion

George R R Martin

#19. The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

William Shakespeare

#20. The morning will brighten the day, darkness gives way to light. The man awakens and sharpens his knife on the whetstone of success.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#21. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone -

Veronica Roth

#22. Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

Claudia Gray

#23. Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

Audre Lorde

#24. The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

John Lyly

#25. There are so many moments in our life which we cannot describe with mere words. There are not enough adjectives to justify the emotions behind such moments. Those moments are your life- they define who you truly are

Viraj J. Mahajan

#26. I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

Jay Asher

#27. I already felt disengaged with my contemporaries.

Kyle MacLachlan

#28. Energy and art go where they will.

Jerry Saltz

#29. Sick of writers. Sick of creeds. Now I reverence. Only deeds.

Gregg Bell

#30. For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders.

Jakob Bohme

#31. The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

Andy Crouch

#32. Follow your dreams, because your dreams won't follow you ...

Amanda Holden

#33. People quoting others have nothing of their own to offer.

Moris Mateljan

#34. I haven't been approached to do anything, but I would certainly make room for it. It was a really fun time.

Kathy Valentine

#35. Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

Russell Lynes

#36. The mind aware of itself is a pilot ... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

Marilyn Ferguson

#37. As soon as there was profit, there were people who wanted to make it, more than they wanted to make anything else.

Joseph Heller

#38. I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#39. I cant hide what i feel inside adn jsut stop loving you even if i watned to i cant hold on but letting go is somethin i cant do even if i wanted to

Jason Aldean