“ As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hates and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
“ There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
“ The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. ”
- John Harold- Copy
“ Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
“ For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. ”
- Spike Milligan- Copy
“ A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
“ The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
“ I grew up in San Diego in a non-athletic environment. My parents were not interested in sports. Their loves were art, literature and music. I gravitated towards sports because of my older brother Bruce and the first coach I ever had, who, like John Wooden, made it fun and really emphasized the joy of playing the team game. ”
- Bill Walton- Copy
“ Here is a guy who's had a stake driven through his heart. I mean, really nailed to the bottom of the coffin with a wooden stake, and a silver bullet through the forehead for good measure-and yet he keeps coming back. ”
- Ted Koppel- Copy
“ At length we emerged from the forest, on the banks of the Una, near its mouth. It was here about one hundred yards wide. The residence of Senor Danin stood on the opposite shore; a large building, whitewashed and red-tiled as usual, raised on wooden piles above the humid ground. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
“ The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred… Who says middle management is useless? ”
- Adam C. Engst- Copy
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