Double Axe Handle

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

“No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“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.