Spreading Chestnut Tree

Famous quotes containing the words spreading chestnut tree, spreading chestnut, spreading and/or tree:

“Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

“Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“A single soldier does not make a general, just as a single tree does not make a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.