Tool Maintenance Quotes

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.

A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

When you make and drape clothing, the scissors are your tool. What can I say about them? They're my babies. And you have to take care of them correctly. You have to have them sharpened, and you can't use them for any other material.

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.

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.