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"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." »Woody Allen
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"What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov
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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." »Ogden Nash
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"Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education." »Mark Twain
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"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him." »Chinese Proverb
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"Cowardly dogs bark loudest." »John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
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"Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast." »Pressbox Maxim
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head." »Ambrose Bierce
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." »H.L. Mencken
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"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." »Mark Twain
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"He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot." »The Talmud
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"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear." »Dave Barry
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"You can kidnap me and force me to be your watchdog if you want to. But I'm telling you, I will bark at any sound I hear and it will drive you crazy." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss" »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it-beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." »Samuel Johnson
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"A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67." »Norman R. Augustine
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"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." »David McIntosh
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"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade." »Persian Proverb
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"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus
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"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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