
“Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 26, section 4 (p. 299)
“Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 26, section 4 (p. 299)
“4797. The Tongue is not Steel, yet it cuts sorely.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Letter to Cassandra (1799-01-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
State v. Beal http://books.google.com/books?id=lEFOAQAAIAAJ&q=%22it+would+be+almost+unbelievable+if+history+did+not+record+the+tragic+fact+that+men+have+gone+to+war+and+cut+each+other's+throats+because+they+could+not+agree+as+to+what+was+to+become+of+them+after+their+throats+were+cut%22&pg=PA302#v=onepage, 199 N.C. 278 (1930).
As quoted in Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company (2004) by Owen W. Linzmayer
2000s
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
“108. A Fool’s Tongue is long enough to cut his own Throat.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Flawed Chieftain http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/niall_stanage/2006/06/the_flawed_chieftain.html (The Guardian 'Comment is Free')
In an interview with Hot Press magazine