All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Peter Ustinov

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

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

God made them as stubble to our swords.
Oliver Cromwell

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
Ferdowsi

Our swords shall play the orators for us.
Christopher Marlowe

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
James Harrington

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.
Fred Saberhagen

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. Smith

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