Top 195 Axe Quotes & Sayings

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

'Axe Cop' is an animated show that just started on Fox that is based off the comic book series. And here's the hook: it's written by a 5-year-old. This 5-year-old has a brother who's, like, 28 and is in the business, and the little brother kept coming up with all these awesome stories for this character he dreamed up called Axe Cop.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: ?—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw

The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.

If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream.

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

Dana Brooke's entire face looks like it was remodeled after somebody set fire to it and put it out with an axe.

Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in 'Axe Cop' someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

I've always enjoyed playing. If all it meant were to just stand there and play my axe and sing, I could have gone on forever.

For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

I do have a Viking axe by the bed if I need to whack someone... My wife bought me a Viking axe - the axe side curls down so you can grab the adversary around the neck and you can use it to climb walls, as a grappling hook.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

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.