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.
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.
Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.
I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.
The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.
You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it. . . they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
Wolf's wool is the best of wool, but it cannot be sheared because the wolf will not comply.
