Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A girls heart is like a dark wood
Russian Proverb
It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity
Buddha Sutta-Pitaka
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
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
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
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
Zen Proverb
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
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