Quotes And Sayings About Woodworking

Quotes And Sayings About Woodworking - quotes about life

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.... Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work... ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Woodworking is a most satisfying pastime, so varied and multifaceted you will never complete the twin processes you have undertaken: acquiring tools and learning how to use them. You have begun a lifetime pursuit.
~Michael Dunbar, "Essential Tools"

The feel and beauty of finely crafted wood…the refreshing smell of your workshop…the absorbing joy of cutting and joining that makes the hours race by… These are the reasons you love woodworking.
 ~Jack Neff, Make Your Woodworking Pay for Itself, 1996


Woodworking gives me something useful to do when I'm feeling puny and it takes my mind off my troubles.
 ~Gary McCarthy, Yellowstone Thunder, 2011 (Quinn Wallace)


The best carpenters make the fewest chips.
~English proverb, c.1500s


The civil law cannot provide but by common measures... all their rules are made by as common a measure as they can, and they are the best rules that have the fewest exceptions: the best Carpenters make the fewest chips: but some there must be.
~Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or The Rule of Conscience, 1659


[W]ood supplies a soothing warmth that no other fuel can provide, encouraging family and friends to gather around a roaring fire for pleasant conversation. Many romances have blossomed in front of a flickering fireplace — just one more wonderful way that wood warms you.
~Tim Clark, The Old Farmer's Almanac 2015 (Farmer's Calendar, November 2014)


Woodworking matters. It's more than a pastime or hobby—being a woodworker means that you know the satisfaction and pride that comes from using your hands and mind to build beautiful, functional objects, and that you're as interested in the process as the outcome. Amid the speed and chaos of the modern world, woodworking gives us a place where we can slow down, pay attention, and take the time to do things right.
~Aimé Ontario Fraser, Your First Workshop: A Practical Guide to What You Really Need, 2005


Whether made into a wooden pillow or table,
wood with excellent fine grain is a guarantee of splendid poems,
and the composition of perfect documents.
~Liú Shèng (d. 113 BC),

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

It is a proverb wise and ancient,

Beware how you give any edge tool

Unto madmen that be insipient,

Unto a young child, and unto a fool.

~William Wager

'Tis dangerous meddling with edge-tools. 

~John Tatham

[E]dged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. 

~Agnes Reppllier

Blunt tools are sometimes found of use where sharper instruments would fail. 

~Charles Dickens

The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp... 

~Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass

In the elder days of Art,

Builders wrought with greatest care

Each minute and unseen part;

For the Gods see every where.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Builders"

Woodworking minus patience equals firewood.

 ~Author unknown

Woodworkers are knotty.

 ~Author unknown

A bad day woodworking is better than a good day working. 

~Author unknown

Extremely Sad Love Quotes That Make You Cry

Here are Sad quotes for love:

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." 
- Hermann Hesse

"It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but to forget someone takes a lifetime." 
- Anonymous

"When you are in love and you get hurt, it is like a cut... it will heal, but there will always be a scar." 
- Anonymous

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"It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces." 
- Anonymous


"You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel." 
- Anonymous

"I hate to see the one I love happy with somebody, but I surely hate it more to see the one I love unhappy with me...."
 - Anonymous

"A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone's face." 
- Anonymous

"Its hard to pretend you love someone when you don't, but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do." 
- Anonymous

"I wish I had the guts to walk away and forget about what we had, but I can't because I know you won't come after me & that's what hurts the most." 
- Anonymous

"A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried." 
- Anonymous

"Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again." 
- Susan Polis Schutz

"Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends?"
 - Anonymous

"When It's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you." 
- Anonymous

"Sometimes you don't realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you." 
- Anonymous

"Someone can walk into your life and it is not until after they walk out that you realize that they were even there." 
- Anonymous

Quotes About Being Happy

“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
– Anne Frank
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“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss

“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
– Epicurus
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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
– Helen Keller
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“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
– Robert Anthony
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“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
– J.D. Salinger
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“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.”
– Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
– Barbara DeAngelis
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“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”
– W.P. Kinsella
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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
– Mark Twain
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“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.”
– Tom Brady
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“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
– St. Augustine
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“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
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– Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
– Edith Wharton
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“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
– Aristotle
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“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Happiness is a state of activity.”
– Aristotle
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
– Franklin Roosevelt

Inspiring and Romantic Good Night Quotes and Wishes

“Before you go to sleep, do not forget to say thanks for everything good that has happened to you in the last 24 hours. I am thankful at the moment for you.”
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“I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.” 
—  Liam Gallagher
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“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” 
— Sarah Williams

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!.” 
—  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
 — Stephenie Meyer – Twilight
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“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.”
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“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” 
— William Shakespeare
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“The night breeze is blowing through my hair and the soft touch reminds me of your kisses. I wish I didn’t have to miss you this much.”
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“Although I love the stars that dot the night sky, I love the stars in your eyes even more. While I sleep, I will think about my favorite stars and wait to be with you again.”
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“My idea of a good night out is staying in.” 
—  Martin Freeman
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“A day is going to end again. It is nice to have a friend like you. Making my everyday seems so great. Thank you my friend lastly. Good Night and Sweet Dreams.”
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“Sometimes I’m so tired, I look down at what I’m wearing, and if it’s comfortable enough to sleep in, I don’t even make it into my pajamas. I’m looking down, and I’m like, ‘T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that’s fine. It’s pajama-y, good night’.”
— Rebecca Romijn
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“I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sight – What may not bless my waking eyes.”
—  Anne Brontë
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“All I wish is that the nights when we are together would never end. When we are apart, I cannot bear it. Good night, my love.”
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“The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” 
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Meaningful Quotes About Helping Others

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

– Barack Obama

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“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

– Anne Frank

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“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”

– Warren Buffett

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“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

– Napolean Hill

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“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own."

– Abraham Lincoln

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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

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“Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.”

– Mother Teresa

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“Give, but give until it hurts.”

– Mother Teresa

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“I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”

– Charles de Lint

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“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”

– Frank A. Clark

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“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

– Mohammed Ali

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“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

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“Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.”

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

– Buddha

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“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”

– Buddha

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“Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.”

– Buddha

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“You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life.”

– Zig Ziglar

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“Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”

– Socrates

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“What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.”

– German motto

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“I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital.”

– Demetri Martin

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“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.”

– Lydia M. Child

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“To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.”

– Henry Ford

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“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”

– Henry Ford

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“If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”

– Chinese Proverb

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“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

– Dalai Lama

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“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”

– Jesse Jackson