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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.

Congolese proverb

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Albert Einstein

Rotten wood cannot be carved

Chinese Proverbs

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

Chinese Proverbs

The wood will renew the foliage it sheds.

Irish Proverb

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Karl Barth

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned

Edward Hand

Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

Bible

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.

Alexander Hamilton

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

Henry Ford

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Franz Kafka

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Immanuel Kant

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Zen Proverb

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden

Spanish Proverb

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.

William Blake

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

Dixie Lee Ray

The block of wood should not dictate to the carver

Maori Proverb

No Wood without Bark.

Benjamin Franklin

Can't see the wood for the trees

Proverb

As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Bible

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.

Bible

Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.

Alfonso X

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