A carpenter is known by his chips.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

— Jonathan Swift

At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he] was known to be virtuous.…

— Josephus

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be…

— Demosthenes

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The Carpenter Shop”

— Wendell Berry

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as…

— William Faulkner

It's the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary. You had that in the Carpenter…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game…

— Robin Hobb

As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn…

— Brooklyn Sudano

There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant…

— Max Lucado

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude…

— Zhuangzi

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

— Sappho

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're…

— Ziggy Marley

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

— Friedrich Schiller