Logo
A knotty piece of timber must have smooth wedges. - English prover

A knotty piece of timber must have smooth wedges. – English proverb quoted by John Ray, 1670

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Woodworking
category

The wordsmith cut saws for a living. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Woodworking

Good workmen never quarrel with their tools. – Lord Byron, Don Juan

Category:
Woodworking

Who answers when you knock on wood? – J. Drummond, People, 1969

Category:
Woodworking

I think objects made of wood by children, left to their own devices, if such there be, will assay ten percent wood, ninety percent nails. – Robert Paul Smith, “Where Did You Go?” “Out.” “What Did You Do?” “Nothing.”, 195

Category:
Woodworking

Random Quotes

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you dont have love in your life, no matter what else there is, its not enough. – Ann Landers

Category:
great

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, its usually lousy. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Category:
best

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. – Talcott Parsons

Category:
Knowledge

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. – Pearl S. Buck

Category:
Death