Nature and Elements

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

The kids, like all kids, loved the dog [Checkers], and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.

At the center of all these noble races we cannot fail to see the blond beast of prey, the magnificent blond beast avidly prowling round for spoil and victory.

[ Explaining why he walked a lobster on a leash in the gardens of the Palais Royal :] I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don’t bark, and they don’t gnaw upon one’s monadic privacy like dogs do.

The trouble with a kitten is

Thunder on the Left.

Quand je me jouë à ma chatte, qui sçait si elle passe son temps de moy plus que je ne fay d’elle .

The great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.

Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.

[ Hammer, played by Groucho Marx, speaking :] I’ll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh, I can see you now, you and the moon. You wear a necktie so I’ll know you.

And a rose, she lived as roses do, the space of a morn.

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Man is the cruelest animal.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.