Lang or ye cut Balkland wood with a pen knife. – Scottish proverb, said when people work with improper tools, c.1500s Category: Woodworking
The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp… – Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass Category: Woodworking
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. – Jamie Lee Curtis Category: Happiness
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. – Walter Rauschenbusch Category: History
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a mans spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit. – Edgar Sheffield Brightman Category: Tyranny
