About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger Dijkstra
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
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
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
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