quotes about Scythes
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Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
-- Hester Lynch PiozziSource : Letter to Fanny Burney, 22 November (1781)
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Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.
-- Joseph Hall -
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.
-- Mervyn PeakeSource : Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.110, The Overlook Press
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Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them
-- Terry Pratchett
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Source : Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage
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Source : "Model's Web rants pined for love" by Veronika Belenkaya and Brian Harmon, www.nydailynews.com. June 29, 2008.
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“It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.”
Source : "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. June 2002.
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“For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society”
Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
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“When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.”