Sugar Pine Lumber

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

    “A good neighbour, even in this,
    Is fatal sometimes, cuts your morning up
    To mince-meat of the very smallest talk,
    Then helps to sugar her bohea at night
    With your reputation.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree seems to wait, and neither with impatience:Mthey give no thought to the little people below them whose impatience and curiosity eat them up alive.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
    —Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)