Famous quotes containing the words wooden and/or spokes:
“Hard labor and spare diet they had, and off wooden trenchers, but they had peace and freedom, and the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in their ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)