Famous quotes containing the words shaped, cutting and/or edge:
“How will it be with kingdoms and with kings
With those who shaped him to the thing he is
When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world,
After the silence of the centuries?”
—Edwin Markham (18521940)
“Nowadays almost all mans improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razors edge invisible.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)