Tree Sorrow

Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees? - Robin Williams

The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue it has. - Talmud

The righteous will flourish like the palm tree. - Psalms 92:12

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. - Cameroon Proverb

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Kahlil Gibran

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow. - Swedish Proverb

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. - Henry David Thoreau

I ordered a bed from IKEA and they sent me a tree trunk and a saw. - Eileen Curtright

If you tell a joe-k in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joe-k? - Steven Wright

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, does it make a sound? - Unknown

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo Buscaglia

The trees in Siberia are miles apart - that's why the dogs are so fast. - Bob Hope

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. - Chinese Proverb

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. - Mark Twain

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. - Fred Allen

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. - Amelia Barr

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees. - Rainer M Rilke

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R.R. Martin

Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees. - Steven Magee

The stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. - Haruki Murakami

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o'er wrought heart and bids it break. - William Shakespeare

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. - George S Patton

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. - David Foster Wallace

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. - Tahir Shah

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. - Bill Bryson

I think trees should bloom earlier in the spring. They act like they are on a schedule. It’s not like they have anywhere to go. - Jarod Kintz

On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat. - Edward Lear

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money. - Cree Proverb

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' - Sylvia Plath

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow