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• A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!
  -- H. F. Chorley (1831-1872) -- The Brave Old Oak...
• The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall.
  -- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) -- The Mistletoe Bough...
• Ladies and gentlemen, the ten-year old who's brave and bold, when he's not in class, he's risking his ass, the world's greatest daredevil, Bart Simpson!
  -- Announcer in Bart's dream, "Bart the Daredevil...
• A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root around the tree.
  A crow remarked, `You should not do this. If you lay bare the roots, the tree will wither and die....
• The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....
• An oak is not feel'd at one chop. -- Proverb
• Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men.
  -- David Garrick (1716-1779) -- Hearts of Oak...
• There was a young man who said God, I find it exceedingly odd, That the willow oak tree Continues to be, When there's no one about in the Quad.
  Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd, For I'm always about in the Quad...