Edge

Famous quotes containing the word edge:

“The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.”
—Ecclesiasticus Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 28:17-8.

“when it comes to my death let it be slow,
let it be pantomime, this last peep show,
so that I may squat at the edge trying on
my black necessary trousseau.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“As I came to the edge of the woods,
Thrush music—hark!
Now if it was dusk outside,
Inside it was dark.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)