Wooden Sticks

Famous quotes containing the words wooden and/or sticks:

    “The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can’t hear yourself speak.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “Pancakes and fritters,
    Say the bells of St. Peter’s.
    Two sticks and an apple,
    Say the bells of Whitechapel.

    Kettles and pans,
    Say the bells of St. Ann’s.”
    —Unknown. The Bells of London (l. 7–12)