Terry Pratchett
Author
"Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them."
Scythes quotes
Scythes
9 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Occupation is the scythe of time."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"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."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence."
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