Wooden

Famous quotes containing the word wooden:

“You think a wooden animal
is a simple thing;
it’s not.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Whither went the lovely hoyden?
Disappeared in blessed wife;
Servant to a wooden cradle,
Living in a baby’s life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Hard labor and spare diet they had, and off wooden trenchers, but they had peace and freedom, and the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in their ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)