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- I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
- People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
- Dick Cavett (1936 - )
- The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today.
- James Carville
- Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
- Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
- Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
- If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
- The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
- He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
- Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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