The days of our years arethreescore years and ten;
and if by reasonof
strengththey be fourscore years, yet istheir strength labour and
sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 90:10.
Two things should have been cut. The second act and that youngster's
throat.
- Sir Noe« l Peirce Coward
After watching a
play featuring a14-year-old child star (sometimes
identified as Bonnie Langford). Attributed.
Tell you what, you keep the salary and pay me the cut.
-Vernon Louis known as 'Lefty' Gomez
When asked to take a
cut in salary from $20,000 to $7,500 following a poor
season. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports
Quotations (1990).
First we're going to cut it off, and then we're going to kill it.
- Colin Luther Powell
On the opposition to Operation Desert Storm. In the
US News andWorld
Report, 4 Feb.
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves
everything.
-James Grover Thurber
Quoted in
HelenThurber and EdwardWeeks (eds) Selected Letters
ofJamesThurber (1981).
My efforts to cut out 50,000 words may sometimes result in my adding
75,000.
-Thomas Clayton Wolfe
Letter to his editor, Maxwell Perkins.