"A carpenter is known by his chips." — Jonathan Swift
"A carpenter is known by his chips."
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Jonathan Swift
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his…
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people…
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax…
— Lewis Carroll
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -…
— David Amram
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Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with…
— Anthony de Mello
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Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys…
— Ralphie May
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Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to…
— Jack Kerouac
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Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and…
— John Jay Chapman
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone…
— Anthony of Padua
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I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're…
— Betty Buckley
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When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly…
— Harrison Ford
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