Hunger and love are the two axes of the world.
ThibaultYou are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.
john amaechiMany axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.
kenan evrenNo hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
Reginald HeberNo hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence!
Reginald HeberOrcs came with axes and cut down my trees.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails;
Daniel Defoe