Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
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
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.
I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.
Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
Occupation is the scythe of time.