Knives Quotes

• Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

  Richard Marcinko

  Home, Cards, Ems

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• There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Character, Civilization

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• A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

  Patrick Ness

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• The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Remember, it is never the knife's fault.

  Daniel Boulud

  Faults, Remember

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• I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

  Charles Bukowski

  Flower, I Hate You, Hands

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• A well trained person needs only a knife to survive.

  Mors Kochanski

  Survival, Needs, Wells

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• A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Hurt, Cutting, Sharp Knives

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• The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Mean, Science, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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• Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Novelists, Grows

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• If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll
  spend 7 hours to sharp my
  knife.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Cutting, Tree, Hours

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• This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

  Daniel Handler

  Hurt

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• The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Doctors, Hands, Giving

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". Interview with Annette Grossbongardt and Joachim Preuss in Ankara, www.spiegel.de. April 16, 2007.

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• The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.

  Mors Kochanski

  Moving, Opportunity, Survival

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• The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sad, Orlando, Melancholy

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

  Horace Kephart

  Use, Dull, Made

  Horace Kephart (1922). “Camping”

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• You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

  James Brown

  Dull, Saying Nothing, Loud

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• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Kindness

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.2

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• If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

  Louise Brooks

  Bores You, Bores, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

  Stephen King

  Success, Cutting, Effort

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

  Zoroaster

  Men, Wisest Man, Advice

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• A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

  Ella Leya

  Tongue, Turkish, Heal

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.168, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Funny, Peace, Ubuntu

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• There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hands, Darkness, Graveyard

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.5, A&C Black

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