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1 " Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. As if one were to wear any sort of coat which the tailor might cut out for him, or gradually leaving off palm-leaf hat or cap of woodchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown! It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have, which yet all would admit that man could not afford to pay for. Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes be content with less? "
― Henry David Thoreau , Walden
2 " How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia? "
― Sarah Mlynowski , Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)
3 " He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself,” Bones added. “Aside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of ‘how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck’ to make me want to stake myself. "
― Jeaniene Frost , One Grave at a Time (Night Huntress, #6)