The Carpenter Shop

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

— Friedrich Schiller

An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

— Ming-Dao Deng

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply…

— Anne Sexton

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you…

— Samuel Johnson

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

— Winston Churchill

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

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old…

— Betty Smith