That's Not A Knife

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

Seasaw: Saw used to cut driftwood - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Trust everybody, but cut the cards. - Finley Peter Dunne

A little axe can cut down a big tree. - Jamaican Saying

Measure a thousand times and cut once. - Turkish Proverb

They should have a Barbie with a buzz cut. - Ellen DeGeneres

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. - W H Auden

Cut Rates: What surgeons charge their patients. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Eunuch: A man who has had his works cut out for him. - Robert Byrne

Surgeon: The person who was a cut-up at medical school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards. - Henny Youngman

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. - Harrison Ford

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin. - Simone Schwarz-Bart

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda

The grass may be greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut. - Little Richard

Lawyers are like scissors; they never cut each other, but what is between them. - Unknown

There's something fundamentally wrong with bringing a knife to a gun fight. - Sean Connery

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. - Criss Jami

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. - C S Lewis

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. - Yogi Berra

After you cut off a person's nose there is no point in giving him a rose to smell. - Ravi Zacharias

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

The greatest men have been those who have cut their way to success through difficulties. - F.W. Robertson

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. - John Webster

A gentleman should never leave the house without a sharp knife, a good watch, and great hat. - Unknown

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. - Billy Connolly

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. - George Burns

Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water. - Bob Hope

You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now I'm scared. - Unknown

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage. - Paul Harvey

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. - Abraham Lincoln

The axe cannot boast of the tree it has cut down. It could do nothing but for the woodsman. He made it, he sharpened it, and he used it. - Samuel Brengel

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. - Stephen King

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. - Paul Harvey

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. - Robert G Ingersoll

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus' poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. - Joseph Campbell

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws. - Rosa Parks

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. - Russell Peters