Tree Table

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. - Flemish Proverb

Wherever I sit is the head of the table. - H.L. Mencken

At a round table there is no dispute about place. - Italian Proverb

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere

If you hate where you are, move - you are not a tree. - Unknown

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

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

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman

The Meathead swooped down on the table like a plague of crocuses. - Archie Bunker

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams

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

The colder the X-Ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it. - Steven Wright

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

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

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. - George Mikes

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. - George Carlin

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan

Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what's been on the table all along. - David McCullough

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, don't blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Unknown

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

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 is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. - Johannes Brahms

My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she can sure climb a tree. - Henny Youngman

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. - Confucius

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

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 is stupid. - Albert Einstein

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. - Steve Wozniak