As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
Spirit is the sword and experience the sharpening stone.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Jade and men, both are sharpened by bitter tools.
When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.
No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree.
Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.
The calf isn't even born yet and there he is sharpening his carving knife.
My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.
Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about our feelings at that moment. Do we sharpen the pen...
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
Difficult times are sharpeners for the mind
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.
The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.
A critique is a necessary tool to sharpen your craft.
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
