Wood Quotes

Follow the grain in your own wood.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

A girls heart is like a dark wood

It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity

Buddha Sutta-Pitaka

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Sir Francis Bacon

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.

Old Eskimo proverb

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

William Wordsworth

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight

African Proverb

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Billy Graham

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

Bible

As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.

Bhagavad Gita

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Fairlane

From the solitude of the wood, Man has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Loren Eiseley

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

Ronald Reagan

If a 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, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

George Bernard Shaw

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