Wood Quotes

738 quotes by 604 authors

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but… — Saint Augustine
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to… — Francis Bacon
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about… — Christian Bale
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house,… — Karl Barth
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer… — Henry Beston
I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if… — Sade Adu
I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach. — Jo Brand
I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,'… — Jo Brand
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. — George Carlin
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. — Dante Alighieri
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. — Jean Cocteau
Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still… — Sun Tzu
The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to… — Al Barkow
October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts… — Ken Weber
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to… — Plutarch
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and… — J. B. Priestley
He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises… — Andrew Jackson Downing
The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and… — Augustus William Hare
Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants… — Henryk Skolimowski
My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it,… — Gene Sarazen

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