Sugar Pine Lumber

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

    “There is no sugar cane that is sweet at both ends.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Lodgepole
    coneseed waits for fire
    And then thin forests of silver-grey.
    in the void
    a pine cone falls”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “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)