Best Wood Proverbs
738 Wood quotes by 578 unique authors
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The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to…
— Claudia Roden
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The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of…
— Thomas Sowell
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I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and…
— Lewis Carroll
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The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire…
— Peter R. Scholtes
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When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.
— Israel Albert Horowitz
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Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is…
— Stefan Kieszling
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of…
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on…
— Christopher Darden
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You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
— Nicolas Malebranche
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In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have…
— Clinton Scollard
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the…
— Joss Whedon
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You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.
— William Shakespeare
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The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best…
— Michael Hastings
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I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot…
— Shane Warne
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First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire.…
— Lev Polugaevsky
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit…
— Hugh Miller
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We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable,…
— Helmut Jahn
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The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay,…
— George MacDonald
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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
— Aristotle
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den…
— Carl Perkins
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Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
— Harrison Ford
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She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of…
— Mary Johnston
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Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
— Martin Luther
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A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
— Suzi Quatro
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can…
— Khalil Gibran
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