Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!
To carry timber into the wood. [Lat. , In silvam ligna ferre. ]
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.
Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.
