My ma always said the word damn came from beavers who gave…

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very'…

— William Allen White

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs…

— Mick Delaney

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

— Stephanie Coontz

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every…

— Henry David Thoreau

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have…

— C. S. Lewis

The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as…

— Kevin Drum

The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic…

— Jerry Spinelli

Save a tree, eat a beaver¦

— Zac Hanson

I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.

— Scott Adams

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process," she said in her speech. "I was completely the eager beaver in school,…

— Emma Watson

I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh,…

— Papa John Creach

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can…

— Jonathan Safran Foer