Pine Lumber Company

Famous quotes containing the words pine, lumber and/or company:

    “A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure. It is interesting to remember how much of this food for fire is still concealed in the bowels of the earth.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
    With loads of learned lumber in his head.
    With his own tongue still edifies his ears,
    And always listening to himself appears.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “There is no such thing as “the Queen’s English.” The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)