Famous quotes containing the words dagger and/or axe:
“The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“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)