Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough. — Sappho Copy Share Image
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale… — Henry Chorley Copy Share Image
The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodybuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California,… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Oak... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures... when exposed to moisture... it cannot take in liquid on account… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
