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Letter "C" » carpenter
«Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one»
Author: Sam Rayburn
(Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
barn, barns, carpenter, jackass, Jackasses, kick down, The Carpenters
«A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one»
Author: Sam Rayburn
(Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
barn, barns, carpenter, jackass, Jackasses, kick down, The Carpenters
«Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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absorb, absorbs, apprentice, apprentices, carpenter, classics, find out, good and, master, read, studies, The Carpenters, The Classics, the Master, throw, trash, trashed, Trashing, window, works
«And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? / Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.»
Author: Bible
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carpenter, Joses, Juda, offended, Sabbath day, Simon, sister Mary, Teach In, This Man
«And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? / Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? / And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? / And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
carpenter, insomuch, Joses, judas, mother country, sister Mary, synagogue, This Man
«The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.»
«If old Pontifex had had Cromwell's chances he would have done all that Cromwell did, and have done it better; if he had had Giotto's chances he would have done all that Giotto did, and done it no worse; as it was, he was a village carpenter, and I wi»
Author: Samuel Butler
| Keywords:
carpenter, Cromwell, Giotto, it No, pontifex, The Carpenters, village
«An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, carpenter, hearing, IS IS, The Carpenters, unlearned
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