Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.
Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.
I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.
Occupation is the scythe of time.
