A Quote by Joseph Stalin

When you chop wood, splinters fly — © Joseph Stalin
When you chop wood, splinters fly
When you chop wood, chips fly.
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.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.
Boys need wood to chop.
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.
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.
Atlanta is interesting. You have high education rates but there are plenty of regular folks. People have degrees but chop wood on weekends.
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’d say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time.
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
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