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Tag Name "Saws" (11)

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A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
Ambrose Bierce
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When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.
Demetri Martin
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When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.
Ethan Zuckerman
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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Miguel de Cervantes
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Old saws have no teeth.
Cynthia Ozick
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
Edward Abbey
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When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
Gerald Durrell
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When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.
Joni Mitchell
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Full of wise saws and modern instances.
William Shakespeare