A Quote by Henry Ford

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice — © Henry Ford
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
Do you speak Chopnese huh? Do ya? Chop chop chop chop chop. Aha you don't.
I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?
When you chop wood, chips fly.
When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.
Boys need wood to chop.
When you chop wood, splinters fly
Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
Atlanta is interesting. You have high education rates but there are plenty of regular folks. People have degrees but chop wood on weekends.
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm
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