| "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 |
| "Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely |
| "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." »Michelangelo |
| "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." »Joseph Addison |
| "My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble." »Hack Wilson |
| "Follow the grain in your own wood." »Howard Thurman |
| "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture." »Aldous Huxley |
| "'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues." »Phillips Brooks |
| "Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ." »Martin Luther |
| "From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." »Immanuel Kant |
| "Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost |
| "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 |
| "We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears" »John Ruskin |
| "Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow." »Lydia Maria Child |
| "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus |
| "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." »Robert Frost |
| "A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." »Arabic Parable |
| "If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity." »Daniel Webster |
| "I think a new, different kind of bowling should be 'carpet bowling.' It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don't know why we should do this, but my God, we've got to try something" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases." »Homer |
| "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham |
| "In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home." »Dave Barry |
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