Double Axe Handle

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

    “Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee,
    Ease me with death by bidding me got too.
    Oh, if it have, let my word work on me,
    And a just office on a murderer do.
    Except it be too late to kill me so,
    Being double dead: going, and bidding go.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

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

    “Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
    Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
    Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,
    Pounded on the table,
    Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
    Hard as they were able,”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)