Famous quotes containing the words rip and/or cutting:
“We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)