Anyone got some good knife/sword related quotes?

scotchleaf

scotchleaf

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Anyone got some good knife/sword related quotes? I'll start:

"Always run from a knife and rush a gun."
Jimmy Hoffa (1913 - 1975)

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.
Hilary J. Bader, Ferengi Rule of Aquisition #48, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Episode 26, "Rules of Aquisition"

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
 
I must say, to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.
Miyamoto Musashi
 
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.
Tao Te Ching
 
I think this first one fits (somewhat) well with the current situation

"The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again."
Edward Koch

"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife."
~Louise Brooks

dobervol said:
Hmmm, wonder how that worked out for him in the end?
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you can ask him if anyone ever finds him...
 
Romans 13:4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. (New King James Version)
 
Is a tomahawk quote close enough?

Standing Orders, Roger's Rangers:
19. Let the enemy come till he's almost close enough to touch. Then let him have it and jump out and finish him with your hatchet.
 
V for Vendetta:

Creedy: Bollocks. Whatchya gonna do, huh? We've swept this place. You've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy karate gimmicks. We have guns.

V: No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer be standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.


Okay, so it's a stretch, but it was an awesome scene! ;):D
 
Hi scotchleaf -

"You call that a knife? Now THAT'S a knife!"

C. Dundee.

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best regards -

mqqn
 
The text doesn't do this one justice. One should watch this first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR1GZVogy24

"Yeah, a little bit of pain never hurt anybody. If you know what I mean. Also, I think knives are a good idea. Big, f**k-off shiny ones. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good because they don’t make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use ‘em. S**t ‘em right up. Makes it look like we’re serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro."

- The character "Soap" from "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"
 
"The handle is made of a low-durometer, high tensile aramid composite that is impervious to everything from aviation fuel to Al Qaeda body fluids." - DarkOps ad copy for their Dark Ops Paul Basal Shadow

"The choil-notch doubles as both a bottle opener and peacemaker-its’ deployment and use is a great bar fight deterrent in exotic third world locales." - DarkOps ad copy for their Dark Ops Interceptor E&E

Classic "knife-nut" hilarity.
 
"Don't bring a knife to a gunfight." (I can't believe nobody used that yet ;)) )

"Death by a thousand cuts."

"The pen is mightier than the sword." (right up to the point where you get skewered by a sword, journalist)

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."
 
Ted the Bellhop: And finally... a hatchet.
Chester: A hatchet as sharp as the Devil himself is what I asked for.
~ Four Rooms
 
“The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.” Gautama Siddharta

“Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers” African Proverb

“A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.” Turkish Proverb

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.” Lao Tzu

“Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.” Bill Watterson

“Surgeons must be very careful.
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions,
stirs the Culprit
Life!”
Emily Dickinson

“Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife;
But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life.”
G. K. Chesterton

“A knife cannot carve its own handle” Korean Proverb

“The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.” "Ellery Queen"
 
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