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

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

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. - Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

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