Knife/legislation

Famous quotes containing the words knife and/or legislation:

“Why use an ox-slaughtering knife to kill chickens?”
—Chinese proverb.

“The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)