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Oaks Quotes

If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.54, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Shame is pride's cloak.

William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

Interview With Randy Sue Coburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

"Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.

An oak is no respecter of persons.

Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.33, Oxford University Press

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.10

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.24

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.19

If you wish to marry well, inquire well.

FaceBook post by Dallin H Oaks from Jan 16, 2014

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

Fred Hoyle (1966). “Of Men and Galaxies”, p.24, University of Washington Press