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«If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
axes, by the hour, chop, chopping, chop down, down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, eight, had, hours, sharpened, sharpening, six, spend, take down, Tree
«How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, have-not, sit, sit by, sit down, stand out, stood, take down, The Stand, To Live, up to, vain, write
«Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
alight, alighted, alights, beyond, butterfly, down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, grasp, grasps, happiness, just, may, pursued, quietly, sit, sit by, sit down, take down, The Beyond, The Butterflies
«If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?»
«I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.»
Author: Virgil Thomson
(Composer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
deceptions, down, go down on, in store, Itself, known, letting down, let me know, music, musician, regretted, store, stored up, storing, whatever
«I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Enthusiasm,
Play
| Keywords:
against, against the wind, down, enthusiastic, leaves, play, play down, run, running play, skip, skipped, skipping, skips, still, The Wind, wildly, wind
«His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust»
«It is easier to pull down than to build up»
Author: Latin Proverb
| Keywords:
build, building up, build in, build up, down, easier, pull, pulling out, pull down, pull in, pull over, pull through, pull up
«If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.»
«I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
down, eyeglasses, prescription, prescriptions, ran, suddenly, walking