There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen
1. "This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last."
Herman Melville, "Mardi"
Other categories: Life and Death
2. "Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."
John Dewey, "Art as Experience"
3. "No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest."
Estonian proverb
4. "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
Other categories: Trust
5. "I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
Thomas Carlyle
Other categories: Science and Technology
6. "Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."
John Updike, "Self?Consciousness: Memoirs"
7. "Art compares to nature like wine to the grape."
Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"
Other categories: Art and Culture
8. "A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."
Ray Evans, "To Each His Own"
Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness
9. "Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature."
Gérard De Nerval
Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness
10. "Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
John Ruskin
Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness
11. "Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."
Eleanor Roosevelt
12. "If not against us, nature is not for us."
Herman Melville, "Mardi"
13. "Rain is the best policeman."
police motto
Other categories: Various
14. "The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."
Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Meditations on Quixote"
Other categories: Good and Evil
15. "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
Steven Wright
16. "Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by."
Christina Georgina Rossetti
17. "If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?"
Aldous Huxley, "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
18. "A forest bird never wants a cage."
Henrik Ibsen, "The Master Builder"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
19. "The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand, and Stars"
Other categories: Science and Technology
20. "Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
Luigi Pirandello, "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
21. "Nature does nothing uselessly."
Aristotle, "Politics"
22. "I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul."
Jean Cocteau
23. "Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."
George Carlin
Other categories: Various
24. "Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture."
Jacquelyn Mitchard, "The Deep End of the Ocean"
25. "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
Jeff Valdez
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
26. "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Other categories: God and Religion
27. "In summer, the song sings itself."
William Carlos Williams
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
28. "He that plants trees loves others beside himself."
Thomas Fuller, "Gnomologia"
Other categories: Egoism
29. "Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow."
Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Reality and Imagination
30. "All art is an imitation of nature."
Seneca the Younger
Other categories: Art and Culture
31. "It is the great north wind that made the Vikings."
Scandanavian proverb
Other categories: History and Nations
32. "Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."
Chinese proverb
Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Time and Passing
33. "The imagination is one of the forces of nature."
Wallace Stevens
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
34. "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."
Sydney Smith
Other categories: Success and Fame
35. "Time spent with cats is never wasted."
François-René de Chateaubriand
Other categories: Time and Passing
36. "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."
Karel Čapek
Other categories: Human -:- Oration and Silence
37. "In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences."
Robert G. Ingersoll
38. "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
Leo Buscaglia
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility
39. "Nature is none other than God in things."
Giordano Bruno
Other categories: God and Religion
40. "Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."
Truman Capote
Other categories: Love
41. "Oh, the powers of Nature! She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing."
Benvenuto Cellini
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
42. "The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
Henry David Thoreau
43. "Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."
Alexander Graham Bell
Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Human
44. "The great book of nature is written in mathematical symbols."
Galileo Galilei
Other categories: Science and Technology
45. "A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense."
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Other categories: Science and Technology
46. "There is a technical meteorological term for a sunny, warm day which follows two rainy days. It's called a "Monday.""
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Other categories: Various
47. "Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
Herbert Hoover
Other categories: Human
48. "My favorite animal is steak."
Fran Lebowitz
Other categories: Various
49. "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
Edmund Burke
Other categories: Law and Crime
50. "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
Arthur Stanley Eddington
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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