The companionship of one's wife is no article of merchandise, that, after it has been bought, may be returned, or bartered, or changed; for it is an inseparable accident that lasts as long as life lasts; it is a noose that, once you put it round your neck, turns into a Gordian knot , which, if the scythe of Death does not cut it, there is no untying.

It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot . It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thing to the largest and most liberal view--I mean of a practical scheme; but it has struck me that they sometimes throw off a bold conception-- such as a man would not have risen to--with singular serenity.

How to extend the service and at the same time cheapen it to small users--that was the Gordian knot ; and the man who unquestionably did most to untie it was Edward J.

So far, on the contrary, that is the very Gordian knot . But, my friend, with a man like you, good, generous, and devoted, the confession must be bravely made.

This view cuts the Gordian knot of the dispersal of the same species to the most distant points, and removes many a difficulty: but to the best of any judgment we are not authorized in admitting such enormous geographical changes within the period of existing species.

To her mind this complicated tangle of the affairs of life was a Gordian knot impossible to untie and which genius ought to cut.

(1-3) Deftly avoiding a direct attempt to untie the Gordian knot , the current legislative plan is to try to cap the rate of rise of health-care costs across all expenditures in the state at about 7% or less per year.

Who is reputed to have severed the Gordian Knot with his sword?

It looks as if the Conservatives will cut the Gordian Knot through the simple mechanism of abolishing RDAs and devolving power down to councils.

Houdini Brown escaped from a Gordian knot he'd unnecessarily tied himself.

cut the Gordian knot As Alexander the Great had done And rule over a