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Quotation with: "oak"
"Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured
His glassy essence–like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
would all themselves laugh mortal."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Authority
"One day in the bluest of summer weather,
Sketching under a whispering oak,
I heard five bobolinks laughing together,
Over some ornithological joke."
Author: Christopher Pearce Cranch
About: Bobolinks
"In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's
dream."
Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
About: Books First Lines
"Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
Author: William Congreve
About: Charm
"Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him. The Psalmist knew this, and therefore he joined so closely forgetting the name of our God and holding up our hands to some strange god. For every man has something in which he hopes, on which he leans, to which he retreats and retires, with which he fills up his thoughts in empty spaces of time, when he is alone, when he lies sleepless on his bed, when he is not pressed with other thoughts; to which he betakes himself in sorrow or trouble, as that from which he shall draw comfort and strength – his fortress, his citadel, his defence; and has not this a good right to be called his god? Man was made to lean on the Creator; but if not on Him, then he leans on the creature in one shape or another. The ivy cannot grow alone: it must twine round some support or other; if not the goodly oak, then the ragged thorn – round any dead stick whatever, rather than have no stay or support at all. It is even so with the heart and affections of man; if they do not twine around God, they must twine around some meaner thing."
Author: Richard Chevenix Trench
About: Christianity
"The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
The holly branch shone on the old oak wall."
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
About: Christmas
"The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years ago, the next best time is right now!"
Author: Unknown
About: Cliches and OneLiners
"Those pigmy tribes of Panton street,
Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,
Obedient to a tyrant's yoke."
Author: Unattributed Author
About: England
"Where are the rough brave Britons to be found
With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?"
Author: Mrs. Susannah Centlivre
About: England
"Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree."
Author: Ethiopian Proverb
About: Evil
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