quotes about Shears
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And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
-- John Milton -
The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
-- Josef von SternbergSource : Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”
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A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]
-- Suetonius