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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Edmund Burke

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

Monty Python

Things are bad here. Arab gangs are going to neighborhoods and attacking people with swords and sticks. This is a retaliation from yesterday's riots.

Alfred Taban

Pens are most dangerous tools, more sharp by odds Than swords, and cut more keen than whips or rods.

John Taylor

When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

The Talmud

The men seem to like the Samurai swords.

Nancy Mui

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Richard Steele, Sr.

On the crassest level, the lady gets into the box, the lady is sawn in half, the lady is in two pieces, the box is put back together again and the lady is whole. The magician, the shaman figure, the worker of miracles divides and subdivides himself and his assistants. He's drowned, is bound, is filled with swords, and comes out whole.

Clive Barker

Both were equally strenuous. I might feel a little sillier swinging the sword, but it's just as hard as boxing. The difference is when you make a mistake in the boxing you just get tapped a little and you shake it off. But with the swords they use real steel. Every actor had cuts on his hands and people get hit on the arms, so it's a little harder.

James Franco

We find and record everything they had on the vessels. Swords, guns, eating utensils, even gold toothpicks.

John Brandon

And they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks.

Bible

Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, ... Even as he has gone through his coming-of-age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming-of-age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.

Christopher Paolini

I said, 'Hey kid, I'll make you a deal: I'll hand you this U.S. ski team jacket and take you to Europe in two weeks, and it'll only last until you and I cross swords.' And he wasn't a cross country skier. He'd never done a local high school ski race. Everybody in the organization said, 'You can't do things like this, Tom.' Now when I tell that story I look like I knew what I was doing.

Tom Steitz

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

Margaret Halsey

They were working with flashlights, and everything was dark and smelly and gross. It was just a couple of days underwater, and everything was rusty: flintlock muskets, pistols, swords and scabbards. The military uniforms were all reproductions, so we left those behind.

Pam West