Double Axe Handle

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

    “You spotted snakes with double tongue,
    Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen.
    Newts and blindworms, do no wrong,
    Come not near our Fairy Queen.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “She, too, would now swim down the river of matrimony with a beautiful name, and a handle to it, as the owner of a fine family property. Women’s rights was an excellent doctrine to preach, but for practice could not stand the strain of such temptation.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)