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