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I don`t lecture and I don`t grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

- Gregory Peck

You get the family together that hasn`t been together and there`s drinking. Tempers can flair and old issues can come to the surface - old grievances, old axes-to-grind.

- John Young

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

- Thor Heyerdahl

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

- Albert Haldemann

Firefighters simultaneously went to the roof with chainsaws and axes to remove some of the roof and allow the flames to escape vertically.

- Annetjie Pretorius