Kitchen Knife/common Kitchen Knives

Famous quotes containing the words kitchen, knife, common and/or knives:

    “I, too, sing America.
    I am the darker brother.
    They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes.
    But I laugh,
    And eat well,
    And grow strong.”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    “Why use an ox-slaughtering knife to kill chickens?”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self- complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

    “Through open doors, the dining-room declares
    A larger loneliness of knives and glass
    And silence laid like carpet.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)