Nature and Elements
J.R.R. Tolkien
I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I likegardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.
Adlai Stevenson
The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation whoknows but what we may be called upon to takesides as well in the age old problems of dogversus cat, bird versus bird, or even bird versusworm. In my opinion, the State of Illinoisand its local governing bodies already haveenough to do without trying to control felinedelinquency.
Archibald Mcleish
To see the earth as we now see it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night—brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
D.H. Lawrence
John Thomas says good-night to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart.
J.M. Barrie
Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
Eurípides
If your life at night is good, you think you have / Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, / You will consider your best and truest interests /
Sarah Teasdale
A hush is over everything— / Silent as women wait for love, / The world is waiting for the spring.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severally unequalled, is almost sure to he a good-humored person, though liable to be tedious at times.
Fiódor Dostoiévski
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Sheldon Allan Silverstein
The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch.