Feathers Cut

Famous quotes containing the words feathers and/or cut:

“Too many feathers can sink a boat, and too many knick-knacks can break an axle.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting the Scripture, ‘If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)