“ Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Under the greenwood treeWho loves to lie with me,And tune his merry noteUnto the sweet bird's throat,Come hither, come hither, come hither:No enemy here shall he see,But winter and rough weather. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. ”
- David Eccles- Copy
- 2.3K
“ One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. ”
- Gloria Naylor- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
- 971
“ Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. ”
- Davy Crockett- Copy
- 264
“ Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Knowledge like timber shouldn't be much use till they are seasoned. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 2.8K
“ From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. ”
- Overlung- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers… ”
- Brian Aldiss- Copy
- 2K
“ Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally. ”
- Edwin Arnold- Copy
- 3.9K
“ When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 423
“ Under the greenwood treeWho loves to lie with me,And tune his merry noteUnto the sweet bird's throat,Come hither, come hither, come hither:No enemy here shall he see,But winter and rough weather. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 633
“ If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. ”
- David Eccles- Copy
- 3.7K
“ One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. ”
- Gloria Naylor- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. ”
- Davy Crockett- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Knowledge like timber shouldn't be much use till they are seasoned. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 2.3K
“ From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. ”
- Overlung- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers… ”
- Brian Aldiss- Copy
- 921
“ Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally. ”
- Edwin Arnold- Copy
- 807
“ When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.5K
- 1