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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. – Abraham Lincoln
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. – Albert Einstein
The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it. – Ashley Judd
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. – Albert Einstein
Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee – David Assael
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it. – Miguel de Cervantes
A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart. – Mahabharata
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. – Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. – William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. – William Shakespeare
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. – William Shakespeare
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. – Albert Schweitzer
Eternity is a glorious word but eternity is ice. – Dejan Stojanovic
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. – Heywood
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. – Abraham Lincoln
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. – Franz Kafka
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It does not do well to make ice but forget the scotch. – Paul. F. Meekin
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice -- there are two other possibilities one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. – Frank Zappa
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. – Franklin P. Jones
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. – Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
Life is only a flicker of melted ice. – Dejan Stojanovic
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. – Matt Groening

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