Many strokes fell the oak. [ Proverb ]
One stroke fells not an oak. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A little man fells a tall oak. [ French Proverb ]
An oak is not felled at one chop. [ Proverb ]
Not a man of iron, but of live oak. [ Garfield ]
The tall oak, towering to the skies,
The fury of the wind defies,
From age to age, in virtue strong.
Inured to stand, and suffer wrong. [ Montgomery ]
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. [ Aaron Hill ]
The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. [ Lewis Buncombe ]
To cut down an oak, and plant a thistle. [ Proverb ]
A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]
The mourner yew and builder oak were there. [ Dryden ]
The dureful oak, whose sap is not yet dried. [ Spenser ]
Long ere you cut down an oak with a penknife. [ Proverb ]
A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. [ Congreve ]
The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees.
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
Three centuries he grows, and three he stays
Supreme in state; and in three more decays. [ Dryden ]
Those green-robed senators of mighty woods.
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. [ Keats ]
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood;
The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. [ Churchill ]
What planter will attempt to yoke a sapling wMth a falling oak? [ Swift ]
An oak whose boughs were mossed with age, and high top bald with dry antiquity. [ William Shakespeare ]
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall. The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. [ Thos. Haynes Bayly ]
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. [ Shenstone ]
The soft drops of rain pierce the hard marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest oak. [ Lyly ]
When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. [ Carlyle ]
Without woman, man would be rough, rude, solitary, and would ignore all the graces which are but the smiles of love. Woman weaves about him the flowers of life, as the vines of the forest decorate the trunk of the oak with their fragrant garlands. [ Chateaubriand ]
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. [ Burke ]
The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall, for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain, for every inch of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth: her gardens are the skies. [ Robert Burton ]