That's Not A Knife

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

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

Within every heart there is a knife. - Indian 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

You trust your mother, but you cut the cards. - Unknown

Don't dig your grave with a knife and fork. - English Proverb

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

What is drama after all, but life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred Hitchcock

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

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. - Al Bernstein

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

Save a thief from the gallows and he will be the first to cut your throat. - Italian Proverb

Everyone should be paid what he is worth, no matter how big a pay cut is involved. - Unknown

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks

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

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

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

I could juggle anything in my day: balls, cigar boxes, knives. But I could never juggle my income tax. - WC Fields

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. - George W. Bush

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

Did you hear about the auto worker who was offered a position as president of a bank but couldn't afford the pay cut? - Unknown

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

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. - James Lovelock

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. - Thomas Guthrie

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. - Colin Powell

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

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. - Joan Rivers

Character is not cut in marble, but is living and changing, and subject to disease, as our bodies are. Character is not made in a crisis - it's only exhibited. - Robert Freeman

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

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. - Gamal Abdul Nasser

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

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture. When you realize you've made a mistake, you need to cut your losses and move on. - Howard Schultz

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