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  • Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

    Men   Years   House  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.289
  • Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.437, Wildside Press LLC
  • You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!

    Jesus   Mean   Kids  
    "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Book by Ken Kesey, 1962.
  • Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.

    Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.35, Basic Books
  • We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

  • Manchester City are defending like beavers

  • When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

    Mother   Father   Home  
  • I'm not big on the Beavers right now, I know David Pollack is big on the Beavers, he's sipping that Beaver juice.

    Juice   Bigs   Beavers  
  • Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

    Evelyn Waugh (1998). “The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings”, Everyman's Library
  • Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

  • I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.

  • Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

    Dream   Thinking   Wish  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

    C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”
  • He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

    War   Alaska   Volcanoes  
    Nora Roberts (2004). “Northern Lights”, p.45, Penguin
  • There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are.

    Funny   Lying   Animal  
    Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)
  • I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

    Jobs   Grandma   Home  
  • Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

    Men   White Man   Years  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.458, Harvard University Press
  • Minks are mean little critters. Vicous, horrible little animals who eat their own. They're not beavers. I wouldn't wear beavers. I'd rather have a mink coat made of mean little critters that are killed in a very nice way and treated nicely for their short, mean lives so that I could keep warm.

    Nice   Mean   Animal  
  • When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

    Funny   Country   Animal  
  • The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

    Basketball   Dream   Jobs  
    Chris Matthews (2002). “Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
  • But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam

    Humble   Rapper   Hip Hop  
  • Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

    Kings   Men   Lions  
  • The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.

    Sky   Devil   Dry  
    Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.60, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

    Long   Teeth   Locks  
    Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.37, Penguin
  • The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine

  • Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.

    Bird   Population   May  
    ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”
  • The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

    Country   Men   Mountain  
    Henry David Thoreau (2009). “The Maine Woods”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.

    Block   Science   Water  
  • [Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.

    "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.
  • A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.

    Work   Night   Hunting  
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