Shears Quotes

Shears Quote of the day

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.