Rueful Axe Quotes

What rhymes with axe? MORE axe! ~ Markiplier

Bone broth contains potassium and glycine, which support both cellular and liver detoxification. ~ Josh Axe

Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it. ~ Lana Axe

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ~ Albert Einstein

Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side was a pickaxe, for the extraction of interesting minerals, and the other side was a war axe, because the people who owned the land with the valuable minerals in it can be so unreasonable sometimes. ~ Terry Pratchett

One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in 'Axe Cop' someday. I would also love to be in a Western. ~ Ken Marino

I took an axe
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe. ~ Alyssa Sutherland

Me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe.
mom: ...
me: i'm kidding about the axe part. ~ David Levithan

I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew. ~ Lizzie Andrew Borden

The puppet dances, He turns flips and he jigs. His painted red smile looks happy but he is screaming, for he performs on red-hot coals. His wooden feet begin to smoke. A man comes in with a shining axe. He swings it. I think he will cut off the puppet's burning feet, but instead the axe cuts all his strings. But the man with the axe falls just as swiftly as the puppet leaps away, free. ~ Robin Hobb

To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe. ~ Anthony Liccione

When Enrico Fermi built the first nuclear reactor, he suspended the control rods from a rope tied to a balcony railing. In case something went wrong, next to the railing was stationed a distinguished physicist with an axe. This led to the probably apocryphal story that SCRAM stands for "Safety Control Rod Axe Man. ~ Anonymous

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit. ~ Robert Jordan

Many of us have bought into the idea that science, though practiced by humans, has managed to rid itself of human flaws. But if we intend to question everything, perhaps we should begin by questioning whether the human testing of human ideas can be so simple, considering how complicated humans are. ~ Douglas Axe

Kafka said, A book
must be an axe

for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds

great, but what good
is an axe against

a frozen sea?
Perhaps this is why

he said, while dying,
Destroy everything. ~ Matt Rasmussen

I worked with AXE Hair to do a promo shoot for the ESPYs and ESPN - it's all about having girl-approved hair. They have a newer product out there with the hair stuff - shampoo, conditioner and all the styling products that they have. ~ Matthew Stafford

The time was 7:40 A.M. I reached for the phone. "Do you have your axe?" came the voice on the other end. It was Mad Dog. "Yes." "Is your axe sharp?" "No, but I can sharpen it while you're driving here." "How about your knife?" "Got it." "Everything needs to be nice and sharp. ~ Neil Strauss

He nodded, rueful. I immediately caught myself ~ Jennifer Chiaverini

The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I'm~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω - the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw ~ Rick Riordan

If someone had asked him about his dreams on the morning of the barbecue, he would have said that he didn't want for much, but he wouldn't mind a lower mortgage, a tidier house, another baby - ideally a son, but he'd take another girl no problem at all - a big motherfucking boat if it were up for grabs, and more sex. He would have laughed about the sex. Or smiled at least. A rueful smile. Maybe the smile would have been exactly halfway between rueful and bitter. ~ Liane Moriarty

Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful. ~ Jim Bailey

I Hear that the Axe has Flowered

I hear that the axe has flowered,
I hear that the place can't be named,

I hear that the bread which looks at him
heals the hanged man,
the bread baked for him by his wife,

I hear that they call life
our only refuge. ~ Paul Celan

Good God! Can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open … that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, break the lock, steal and tremble; hide, all spattered in the blood … with the axe … Good God, can it be? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Give the wilding an axe, why not?" He pointed out Mormont's weapon, a short-hafted battle-axe with gold scrollwork inlaid on the black steel blade. "He'll give it back, I vow. Buried in the Old Bear's skull, like as not. why not give him all our axes, and our swords as well? I mislike the way the clank and rattle as we ride. We'd travel faster without them, straight to hell's door. Does it rain in hell, I wonder? Perhaps Craster would like a nice hat instead."
Jon smiled. "He wants an axe. And wine as well."
"See, the Old Bear's clever. If we get the wildling well and truly drunk, perhaps he'll only cut off an ear when he tries to slay us with that axe. I have two ears but only one head. ~ George R R Martin

"I tried, once," said Bernard, with a rueful smile. "Yup! I tried." He gazed thoughtfully out the window. ~ Carey Rockwell

I love you, Callie. The war is over, but" - He smiled, a crooked, rueful, tender smile - "my life is just beginning," he told her. ~ Heather Graham

Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock for the death blow. But when the axe was raised, Caspian suddenly threw it away and cried out, "I have lost my queen and my son: shall I lose my friend also?" And he fell upon the Lord Drinian's neck and embraced him and both wept, as their friendship was not broken. ~ C.S. Lewis

Nadir we, youth born, axe wielders, blood letters, victors still. ~ David Gemmell

Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot. ~ Ian Fleming

The biggest trees look intimidating until you swing your axe. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

There's no such thing as a tax on happiness," Helen said, rubbing her forehead.
The countess regarded her with rueful sympathy. "My poor girl... it certainly can't be had for free. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Habits are a lot harder to kill than people.
~ Axe Cooper ~ Vered Ehsani

PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words. ~ Samuel Johnson

I had a conversation with somebody. It was an epiphany." His voice was rueful. He rocked her. "From that point on I swore I would never eat something that could talk. ~ Thea Harrison

He might make it, even if all I really did was hit him in the head with an axe. ~ Richard Hooker

Tugging her purse strap up on her arm, she headed for the
door. "You have my cell number. I'll text you. If something goes
wrong and he pulls an axe, you'll be the first person I call."
Michelle groaned. "See, this is why I worry. The first person
you call is the police. Then you call me and tell me the authorities are
on their way and you're hiding in a closet."
"Yeah, ancient wooden closet door versus axe? And you call
me the illogical one? ~ Virginia Nelson

Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood. ~ Philip Larkin

My love for my mother is like an axe. It cuts very deep. ~ Deborah Levy

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ~ Franz Kafka

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. ~ William Wordsworth

Yes, gentlemen: said Philippa impatiently, and seizing a stout wooden heading axe, let it fall on the next person who passed.

It was Lymond. He dropped to his knees, his hands covering the nape of his neck, his skin flushed with laughter. Philippa, lowering the axe, said, 'I have never in the whole of my life seen you laugh before.'

He looked up at the red sock, still gasping. 'Now that,' he said, 'is ridiculous. Although, now you mention it, I didn't laugh last time it happened. Hit d'Harcourt on the head and see if he laughs. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us. ~ Franz Kafka

Axe's erection was instantaneous, and he kept himself facing her as it rose. Even ~ J.R. Ward

An axe without a blade is just a stick. ~ Anthony Ryan

With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops. ~ Elise Allen

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. ~ J.K. Rowling

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. ~ Abraham Lincoln

You cannot grasp a lie with your hand,
but it can destroy more than an axe. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall. ~ John Marsden

My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers. ~ Dean Koontz

Men," she said rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," Gabriel pointed out. "Believe me," she answered. "I've taken camels into consideration. ~ Zoe Archer

Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky. ~ Ilona Andrews

The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not. ~ Bayode Ojo

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities. ~ Siegfried Sassoon

By this axe I rule! ~ Robert E. Howard

The axe forgets; the tree remembers ~ African Proverb

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. ~ Thomas Paine

Oi, lovebirds!" Puck's voice shattered the quiet, bouncing through the darkness.
Ash pulled back with a rueful look. "Get a room, would ya? We've got better things to
do than watch you suck face! ~ Julie Kagawa

Daisy Bowman," he said unevenly, "I'd spend eternity in hell for one hour with you." "Is that how long it takes? An hour?" His reply was rueful. "Sweetheart, at this point it would be a miracle if I lasted one minute. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Reckless youth makes rueful age. ~ Benjamin Franklin

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. ~ J.M. Coetzee

I do have my dark days. I suppose everyone does. The difference is that most people don't kill their husbands with an axe. ~ Dennis Lehane

Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe. ~ Brian South

My God . . . that grinding is a greeting.
My arrival is honored with the honing of an axe ~ Simon Armitage

Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe. ~ L. Frank Baum

He expects me turn up for the inspection, glance through all of this, and then scurry back to Ohnlei to get on with my life. Marcus gave a rueful smile. More fool him. He doesn't know I haven't got a life. ~ Django Wexler

Girl with a pie, I'll call it. It's almost like guy with an axe, if you squint hard enough. ~ Charlotte Stein

I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation. ~ Mary Howard

A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind. ~ Chris I. Naylor

The pain'll start creeping in again by midnight, but that should give us enough time to talk this through." He sipped again and gave me a look of rueful amusement. "Human things are terrific right to the end, it seems like. I never would have guessed. ~ Stephen King

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. ~ Honore De Balzac

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe. ~ Michel Leiris

November is, for many reasons, the month for the axe ~ Aldo Leopold

I leaned back in my chair, stretching luxuriantly, delibrately letting my jacket fall open. Predictably, his eyes moved down my body-some things outlast even the change. I grinned and he looked away, a rueful smile twitching at his lips. I finished breakfast in peace. ~ Karen Chance

The tree remembers what the axe forgets... ~ Lower Than Atlantis

So, if it's an axe weilding maniac reeking bloody havoc all over the neighborhood, exactly what are we going to defend ourselves with, our boners?
Callum to Jacob ~ Mark Alders

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us. ~ Franz Kafka

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. ~ Nikolai Gogol

Or do you mean to rule over a realm of seals and otters?"
She gave a rueful laugh. "Otters might be easier to rule than men, I grant you. And seals are smarter. ~ George R R Martin

The leaves, they run like mice, while birds peck at the ground. The wood has rotted in its bin. The grim axe has come round ~ Andre Alexis

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one. ~ Michael Chabon

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

My newfound and hard-earned freedom had birthed fresh horrors: grief,despair,guilt and trauma.
These were monsters I couldn't not outrun,hide from or battle with and axe. ~ Jen Wilde

If I come across a problem, I take my axe to it. Or bury it. I'm good at burying things. ~ Emily Lloyd-Jones

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. ~ Fran Lebowitz

What do you say when a seven-and-a-half-foot-tall woman walks into a room with a battle axe and tongues on a hook? Absolutely nothing. ~ Pierce Brown

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. ~ Jonathan Swift

She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips. ~ George R R Martin

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. ~ Andrew Marvell

If we remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we will not be so ready to build our nests in them. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets. ~ John Amaechi

I need to make sure Chris isn't an axe murderer who lures women with the whole "I can fix the camera your friend's cat peed on" line, so I Google him. ~ Lauren Blakely

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. ~ Rumi

Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind. ~ Nanao Sakaki

All men press, one way or another," she said with mock severity.
"They're still keeping to their book then?"
Denna's expression grew rueful and she sighed. "I used to hope they'd disregard the book with age. Instead I've found they've merely turned a page. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

Can a split quill write fair script?
Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire?
Can a cripple please a lady? ~ Juliet Marillier

The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
Not axe nor hammer
Tumor, tremor
Can take it away, and it remains
It remains ~ Joanna Newsom