Pick Axe

Famous quotes containing the words pick and/or axe:

“I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

“The scholar requires hard and serious labor to give an impetus to his thought. He will learn to grasp the pen firmly so, and wield it gracefully and effectively, as an axe or a sword.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)