Scythes Quotes

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

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

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

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

Occupation is the scythe of time.

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.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

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.

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.