Hard Woods

Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or woods:

    “To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,
    When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing:
    When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios and stuff,
    He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

    “Something startles me where I thought I was safest,
    I withdraw from the still woods I loved,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)