Authors:

Scythes Quotes

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Hester Lynch Piozzi
Physicians, Scythes, Sometimes
Letter to Fanny Burney, 22 November (1781)

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

Terry Pratchett
Skeletons, Feet, Scythes
"Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 47), March 2008.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Time, Occupation, Scythes
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c”, Рипол Классик

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

Mervyn Peake
Air, Silence, Scythes
Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.110, The Overlook Press

I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.

William Shakespeare
Scythes
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.336

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

Joseph Hall
Mind, Dull, Scythes
Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Latin theology with translations”, p.174

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cutting, Scythes, Firsts

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

Christopher Hitchens
Scythes, Reaper, Bores
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.9, Hachette UK

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare
Time, Scythes, Defence
William Shakespeare, D. BARNSTORFF, T. J. GRAHAM (Translator.) (1862). “A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]”, p.36

You May Also Like: