Evolving from single-celled yellow organisms at the dawn of time, Minions live to serve, but find themselves working for a continual series of unsuccessful masters
QuotaBillsEvery man under his own fig tree. - Hebrew Saying
Follow the grain in your own wood. - Howard Thurman
The apple will fall under the apple tree. - Greek Proverb
What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees? - Robin Williams
Tweezers: A tool for removing wood splinters - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. - Henry Ford
Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. - Ronald Reagan
Dialogue: Changing the colour of a piece of wood - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Pencil: A tiny tree used to draw a line in the sand - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere
Whittle By Whittle: How to carve a statue out of wood - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree. - Vagabond
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. - Khalil Gibran
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus
If you don't like where you are, move. You are not a tree. - Unknown
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. - Henry David Thoreau
Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds
I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me. - William Blake
Disbelief: How you tell someone what the green stuff on a tree is - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir
I ordered a bed from IKEA and they sent me a tree trunk and a saw. - Eileen Curtright
Xylophonist: A superstitious person who goes around knocking on wood - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, does it make a sound? - Unknown
Family Tree: The only tree whose branches seek the shelter of its roots - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. - Eskimo Proverb
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
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Someone told me I was immature. Guess who's not allowed in my tree house now? - Unknown
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees. - Rainer M Rilke
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. - Immanuel Kant
Shady Character: A fellow who snoozes in a hammock under a tree while his wife mows the lawn - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther
If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. - Willa Cather
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, don't blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland
It's better to fall from a tree and break your back than to fall in love and break your heart. - African Proverb
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? - Unknown
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. - Francois Fenelon
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
Wood: That remarkable material which burns so easily in a forest and with such difficulty in a fireplace - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir
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
When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. - Paula Poundstone
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown
I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman
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
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson
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
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein
The axe cannot boast of the tree it has cut down. It could do nothing but for the woodsman. He made it, he sharpened it, and he used it. - Samuel Brengel
Fiber: Edible wood-pulp said to aid digestion and prolong life, so that we might enjoy another six or eight years in which to consume wood-pulp - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree;
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. - Ogden Nash
Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown
Some primal termite knocked on wood,
And tasted it, and found it good;
That is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today. - Ogden Nash