Quotes for Woodworkers

• Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
• Thomas Carlyle
   
• Why should a craftsman not make use of all his tools if they will promote a greater communication and expressiveness? This is not to deny that beautiful things can be fashioned out of very modest means, but what possible objection can there be towards an artist trying to be more resourceful?
• Don Ellis
   
• Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
• Charles Kingsley
   
• Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
• Agnes Repplier
   
• Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsmen can hide his mistakes!
• Walter Blodgett
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• Men have become the tools of their tools.
• Henry David Thoreau
   
• Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
• Brigham Young
   
• It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
• Emily Dickinson
   
• He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.          
• To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail,
• Abraham Maslow
   
• The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
• Dave Barry
   
• Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
• Kehlog Albran
   
• We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.
• Alain de Botto
   
• In the next century, when art will be packaged as virtual reality software, realistic paintings will sell the way Shaker furniture does now. Shaker furniture will sell the way Van Gogh paintings do. And teddy bears owned by Elvis will come to auction only occasionally.
• Brad Holland
   
• Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
• Nicholson Baker
   
• There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.
• Helen Hayes