Famous quotes containing the words timber and/or tom:
“Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)
“The palsy plagues my pulses”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 37)