Comments on: Woodworking Quotations: Quips, Aphorisms & More

By: Sawdust

Sawdust — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:51:59 +0000

Bless you. So many times I find that reading others thoughts tend to lend a greater perspective to mine.

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:08:53 +0000

OK – and I’m awful at editing my own slow typing.

By: sbnathanson

sbnathanson — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:24:35 +0000

“and iF nature smiles, an object of lasting beauty.” George Nakashima

Just shows that people are reading these quotes. Please keep them coming.

By: bluejazz

bluejazz — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:06:01 +0000

Thanks for reprinting these. I will need to keep an eye for these in the magazine.

I think I need to hang the Friedrich von Schiller quote over my workbench.

By: Jonathan Szczepanski

Jonathan Szczepanski — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:19:05 +0000

There are some great ones in there Meghan.

By: jaysprague

jaysprague — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:47:49 +0000

Nice, but spell check is not edit check…DAMHIKIT
Each plank…can have only onE ideal use…
the mechanic that would perfect his work Must first sharpen his tools.”
“The carpenter is not he (nest)(???) who makes more chips
“Because people are dead, it does not follow that theY(re) were stupid.
Anyone who doesn’t think money growS on trees hasn’t bought any lumber lately

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ”
Theodore Roosevelt

“You have dared a mighty thing and I have just been a cheeky critic.”
Keep daring,
Jay Sprague, Oct. 7, 2012