The days of our years arethreescore years and ten; and if by reasonof strengththey be fourscore years, yet istheir strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 90:10.

Two things should have been cut. The second act and that youngster's throat.

-Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce
After watching a play featuring a14-year-old child star (sometimes identified as Bonnie Langford).  Attributed.

Tell you what, you keep the salary and pay me the cut.

-Gomez,Vernon Louis known as  'Lefty'
When asked to take a cut in salary from $20,000 to $7,500 following a poor season. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

First we're going to cut it off, and then we're going to kill it.

-Powell, Colin Luther
  On the opposition to Operation Desert Storm. In the US News andWorld Report, 4 Feb.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

-Thurber,James Grover
Quoted in HelenThurber and EdwardWeeks (eds) Selected Letters ofJamesThurber (1981).

My efforts to cut out 50,000 words may sometimes result in my adding 75,000.

-Wolfe,Thomas Clayton
  Letter to his editor, Maxwell Perkins.