Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull (U.S. geologist, 1976-)
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com
See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII
Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox
Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht
[O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~From the television show Scrubs
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard
Always when judging
Who people are,
Remember to footnote
The words "So far."
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr
A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard
On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)
Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White
Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd
Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
[T]ime you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married, 1912 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ~Dag Hammarskjold
We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale
Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless
I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs
The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison
If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf
Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis
Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln
It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown
The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi
Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature. ~Morihei Ueshiba
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde
Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds. ~Mikhael Dominico
Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith
Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown
All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. ~Edward Steichen
Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein
The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. ~Ramakrishna
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard
I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead
Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979
Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee
Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha
Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers
Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" ~Oprah Winfrey
Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
Being loved by all is little fun
Unless you're also loved by one.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. ~Lao Tzu
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian
Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring"
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison
Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger
Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin
Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down. ~Walter Winchell, 1932
When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young
Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs
Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown
For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti
God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Quotations about Wisdom
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~Elbert Hubbard
We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster
Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ~Mary Wilson Little
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. ~Bill Veeck
The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~Author Unknown
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. ~John Buchan
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~A.A. Hodge
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~Norman Cousins
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ~James Gibbons Huneker
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~George Santayana
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ~Doug Larson
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ~Tobias Smollett
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ~William Wordsworth
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~Sophocles
If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It
One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. ~Edward C. Steadman
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~Josh Billings
Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant. ~Carrie Latet
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The child, offered the mother's breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom's copious breasts
You'll drink each day with greater zest.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every wise man lives in an observatory. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No man was ever wise by chance. ~Seneca
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw
We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom begins at the end. ~Daniel Webster
Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ~Mary Wilson Little
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. ~Bill Veeck
The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~Author Unknown
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. ~John Buchan
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~A.A. Hodge
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~Norman Cousins
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ~James Gibbons Huneker
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~George Santayana
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ~Doug Larson
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ~Tobias Smollett
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ~William Wordsworth
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~Sophocles
If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It
One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. ~Edward C. Steadman
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~Josh Billings
Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant. ~Carrie Latet
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The child, offered the mother's breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom's copious breasts
You'll drink each day with greater zest.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every wise man lives in an observatory. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No man was ever wise by chance. ~Seneca
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw
Quotations about Winter
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout
One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs
Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~Stanley Crawford
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson
Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry
When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. ~Will Rogers
Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel
O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb
The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Terri Guillemets
Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.
~Minna Thomas Antrim
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake
Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer's secret
Deep down within its heart.
~Charles G. Stater
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude. ~William Shakespeare
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Author Unknown
One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer. ~Plutarch, Moralia
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout
One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs
Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~Stanley Crawford
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson
Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry
When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. ~Will Rogers
Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel
O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Proverb
The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Terri Guillemets
Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.
~Minna Thomas Antrim
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake
Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer's secret
Deep down within its heart.
~Charles G. Stater
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude. ~William Shakespeare
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Author Unknown
One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer. ~Plutarch, Moralia
Quotations about Weekends
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~Bill Watterson
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley
There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~Chuck Palahniuk
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why wait for the weekend to have fun ~Loesje, loesje.org
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author Unknown
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy.
You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday.
No wonder you feel that lost sensation.
You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
~Ogden Nash, about weekends
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess
Of all the days that's in the week
I dearly love but one day
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
~Henry Carey
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Scha
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard
Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs
How pleasant is Saturday night,
When I've tried all the week to be good,
And not spoke a word that was bad,
And obliged everyone that I could.
~Nancy Sproat
I hate weekends because there is no stock market. ~Rene Rivkin
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. ~Jean Rhys
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. ~Richard Rorty
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed Howe
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley
There aren't enough days in the weekend. ~Rod Schmidt
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~Chuck Palahniuk
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why wait for the weekend to have fun ~Loesje, loesje.org
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author Unknown
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy.
You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday.
No wonder you feel that lost sensation.
You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
~Ogden Nash, about weekends
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess
Of all the days that's in the week
I dearly love but one day
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
~Henry Carey
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Scha
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard
Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs
How pleasant is Saturday night,
When I've tried all the week to be good,
And not spoke a word that was bad,
And obliged everyone that I could.
~Nancy Sproat
I hate weekends because there is no stock market. ~Rene Rivkin
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. ~Jean Rhys
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. ~Richard Rorty
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed Howe
Quotations about Weeds
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson
A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's. ~Author Unknown
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. ~Donald Culross Peattie
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. ~Dave Barry
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. ~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903
But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. ~Robert M. Pyle
Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere
They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains. ~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it. ~E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935
I learn more about God
From weeds than from roses;
Resilience springing
Through the smallest chink of hope
In the absolute of concrete....
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Weeds," Perspectives, www.originals.net
First time I've picked weeds in almost a year. Definitely missed it. I love the smell of dirt and plant revealing their hidden nature. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~Author Unknown
Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own. ~Author Unknown
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do.
~Slim Acres
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ~A.A. Milne
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. ~John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881
May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown
Free Weeds
U Pick 'Em
~Author Unknown
You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Terri Guillemets
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ~Author Unknown
Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973
A good garden may have some weeds. ~Thomas Fuller
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ~William Shakespeare
A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds
And when the weeds begin to grow
It's like a garden full of snow...
~John Fletcher, part of a nursery rhyme (Thanks, Paul!)
Weed 'em and reap. ~Author Unknown
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown
Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ~Henry Ward Beecher
A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. ~Francis Bacon
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ~Leonardo da Vinci
A weed is but an unloved flower. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's. ~Author Unknown
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. ~Donald Culross Peattie
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. ~Dave Barry
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of. ~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903
But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. ~Robert M. Pyle
Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere
They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains. ~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it. ~E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935
I learn more about God
From weeds than from roses;
Resilience springing
Through the smallest chink of hope
In the absolute of concrete....
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Weeds," Perspectives, www.originals.net
First time I've picked weeds in almost a year. Definitely missed it. I love the smell of dirt and plant revealing their hidden nature. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~Author Unknown
Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own. ~Author Unknown
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do.
~Slim Acres
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ~A.A. Milne
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. ~John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881
May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown
Free Weeds
U Pick 'Em
~Author Unknown
You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Terri Guillemets
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ~Author Unknown
Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973
A good garden may have some weeds. ~Thomas Fuller
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ~William Shakespeare
A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds
And when the weeds begin to grow
It's like a garden full of snow...
~John Fletcher, part of a nursery rhyme (Thanks, Paul!)
Weed 'em and reap. ~Author Unknown
Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown
Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ~Henry Ward Beecher
A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. ~Francis Bacon
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ~Leonardo da Vinci
Quotations about Weather
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes
Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard
There is no season such delight can bring
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
~William Browne
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday. ~Mike Morley
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher
When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ~Saint Basil
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. ~Rachel Carson
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ~Don Delillo
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main...
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Mark Twain, attributed
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903
The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. ~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley
Snowflakes are kisses from heaven. ~Author Unknown
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Terri Guillemets
Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said? ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin
All was silent as before -
All silent save the dripping rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. ~Mark Twain
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings
There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. ~Alfred Wainwright
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. ~Charles Dickens
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply....
~Edna St Vincent Millay
The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~Joan Didion
Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind. ~Dave Beard
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Where does the white go when the snow melts? ~Hugh Kieffer
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown
Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled. ~Author Unknown
When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown
I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun. ~Author unknown, from a package of Starbucks coffee, 2010
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. ~John Muir
Through woods and mountain passes
The winds, like anthems, roll.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~Jonathan Swift
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. ~John Steinbeck
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. ~Arthur Conan Doyle
The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder. ~Margorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under
Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown
Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. ~Joseph Conrad
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. ~Adeline Knapp
New-England weather - it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done. ~Charles Dudley Warner, 1884, commonly attributed to Mark Twain as "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes
Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard
There is no season such delight can bring
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
~William Browne
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday. ~Mike Morley
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher
When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ~Saint Basil
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. ~Rachel Carson
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ~Don Delillo
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main...
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Mark Twain, attributed
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903
The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. ~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley
Snowflakes are kisses from heaven. ~Author Unknown
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Terri Guillemets
Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said? ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin
All was silent as before -
All silent save the dripping rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. ~Mark Twain
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings
There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. ~Alfred Wainwright
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. ~Charles Dickens
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply....
~Edna St Vincent Millay
The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~Joan Didion
Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind. ~Dave Beard
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Where does the white go when the snow melts? ~Hugh Kieffer
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown
Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled. ~Author Unknown
When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown
I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun. ~Author unknown, from a package of Starbucks coffee, 2010
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. ~John Muir
Through woods and mountain passes
The winds, like anthems, roll.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~Jonathan Swift
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. ~John Steinbeck
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. ~Arthur Conan Doyle
The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder. ~Margorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under
Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown
Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. ~Joseph Conrad
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. ~Adeline Knapp
New-England weather - it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done. ~Charles Dudley Warner, 1884, commonly attributed to Mark Twain as "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
Quotations about Water
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ~William Wordsworth
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David Thoreau
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad
Never a ship sails out of the bay
But carries my heart as a stowaway.
~Roselle Mercier Montgomery, The Stowaway
Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. ~Henry David Thoreau
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen
Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
~e.e. cummings
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. ~H.M. Tomlinson
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country. ~Author Unknown
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.
~William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad
Praise the sea; on shore remain. ~John Florio
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal
The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. ~Kahlil Gibran
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
~Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri
Keep your feet on the deck, your hands on the tiller, your eyes on the horizon and your beer in the fridge! ~B.E. Marshall
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~William Hazlitt
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. ~Henry David Thoreau
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe. ~Joseph W. Beach
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~George Herbert
The sea hath no king but God alone. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship
Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ~William Wordsworth
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David Thoreau
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad
Never a ship sails out of the bay
But carries my heart as a stowaway.
~Roselle Mercier Montgomery, The Stowaway
Water flows uphill towards money. ~Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. ~Henry David Thoreau
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen
Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
~e.e. cummings
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. ~H.M. Tomlinson
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country. ~Author Unknown
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.
~William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad
Praise the sea; on shore remain. ~John Florio
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal
The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. ~Kahlil Gibran
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face
Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
~Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri
Keep your feet on the deck, your hands on the tiller, your eyes on the horizon and your beer in the fridge! ~B.E. Marshall
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. ~William Hazlitt
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ~James Russell Lowell
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be. ~Henry David Thoreau
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe. ~Joseph W. Beach
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ~George Herbert
The sea hath no king but God alone. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship
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