Best Scythes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.”

Losing Green Rough Weed Idleness Utility Hateful Docks Clovers Mead Thistles Scythes Burrs

Author:William Shakespeare

“In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.”

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“Occupation is the scythe of time.”

Time Occupation Scythes

Book:Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c

Source: Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c

“Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.”

Giving War Light Earth Money Millions Sun Fields Genius Gold Heavenly Passages Gross Foe Scorn Battlefields Chariots Scythes

Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.”

Mind Grows Edges Dull Recreation Blunt Scythes

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Latin theology with translations

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Latin theology with translations

“Death lays his icy hand on kings.”

Hands Death Kings Lays Crooked Icy Spades Scythes

Author:James Shirley

“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.”

May Book Grace Honor Fame Red Eternity Breaths Edges Spite Endeavor Hunts Disgrace Tombs Heirs Brazen Devouring Scythes

Author:William Shakespeare

“Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!”

Heart Spirit Time Courses Silent Glasses Pity Iron Fierce Remorseless Scythes

Author:George D. Prentice

“Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.”

Moments Time Roots Strikes Enormous Empires Concept Of Time Scythes

Book:The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..

Source: The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..

“I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.”

Scythes

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.”

People Thinking Way Giving Games Economy Cutting Century Taxes Waste Prosperity Productive Goods 21st Century Tax Cuts Scythes

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)”

Way Humans Ideas Grim Nun Halos Reaper Grim Reaper Scythes

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.”

Feet Seven Obvious Skeletons Scythes

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world”

World Sound Brother Eating Angel Horse Wave Bones Ruins Demon Companion Harvest Arrows Whistling Galloping Scythes Galloping Horses

Book:Early Writings

Source: Early Writings

“A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.”

Knows Want Looks Helping Seems Enjoy Black Pieces Cold Mirrors Distance Features Finding Yourself Skulls Robes Facial Small Pieces Scythes Facial Features

Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.”

Giving Has Beens I Can Ends Reason Light Findings Lovely Burning Denial Shock Candle Bores Unfair Predictable Brows Whining Taunting Reaper Scythes

Book:Mortality

Source: Mortality

“Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing.”

Firsts Littles Turns Yeah Golf Swings Tricky Scythes

Book:Reaper

Source: Reaper

“So what does Tod look like? Whitewashed skeleton skulking around in a black cape and hood? Carrying a scythe? 'Cause I'm thinking that would cause mass panic in the hospital." ..... "Do you chase after a funeral processions in a long, dirty dress, hair trailing behind you in the wind? I shot him a mock frown. "Have you been following me again?”

Source: Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save

“Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.”

Knows Has Beens War Ends Hands Weapons Peasants Revolt Discworld Scythes

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.”

Source: The Fairyland Series

“Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.' At this piece of dramatic exposition, I could not hep but roll my eyes. A length of intestines would not carry the weight of a child, much less a full grown man.”

Men Children Eye Pieces Weight Dramatic Length Pens Grown Man Intestines Scythes

Book:The Sisters Brothers

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.”

Silence Air Edges Mortals Stillness Floats Scythes

Book:Titus Alone

Source: Titus Alone

“Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.”

Time Defence Scythes

Book:A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]

Source: A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]

“You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.”

Time Teeth Flames Worms Abolish Toothless Scythes Mildew

Book:A Joy for Ever, And Its Price in the Market

Source: A Joy for Ever, And Its Price in the Market

“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”

Want Funny Time Father My Own Time Management New Year Scythes Father Time

Book:The Rights of Man

Source: The Rights of Man

“Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.”

Writing Wells Time Army Memoir Spots Scythes

Book:The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte

Source: The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte

“Before falling to the scythe the weeds enjoy a little breeze.”

Littles Fall Enjoy Weed Breeze Scythes

Author:Peter Levitt

“I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.”

Has Beens Bores Predictable Taunting Reaper Scythes

Book:Mortality

Source: Mortality

“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”

Sometimes Sand Physicians Hourglass Scythes

Author:Hester Lynch Piozzi

“Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.”

Knows Pain Law Imagination Refuse Clock Grim Imposing Another Time Reaper Grim Reaper Scythes

Book:I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon

Source: I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon

“The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.”

Made States Hands Poor Fate Blood Kings Equal Glory Shadow Down And Lays Dust Crowns Crooked Icy Armour Spades Scythes

Author:James Shirley

“Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

“Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.”

Persons Bigs Faces Death Guy White Thirds Horse Bones Chess Tall Monk Playing Chess White Horse Scandinavians Hourglass Scythes Tall Guys

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.”

Firsts Difficult Cutting Scythes

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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