Double Axe Handle

Famous quotes containing the words double, axe and/or handle:

    “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The treasures of Cathay were never found.
    In this America, this wilderness
    Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
    The generations labor to possess
    And grave by grave we civilize the ground.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “One who can handle a pen will never have to beg.”
    —Chinese proverb.