"My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare."

-- Lady Hester Stanhope

#Nature Quotes #Stars Quotes #Moon Quotes

“Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.”
“I was even surprised when in Spa Kimi said to me, ‘Congratulations on your son's birth!’ this is only thing Kimi said to me in two years.”
“Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”
“The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.”

Source : John Lyly, George K. Hunter, David Bevington (1991). “Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly”, p.285, Manchester University Press
“It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.”
“One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.”
“When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.”
“We begin to make the plan known to our children when we hold tight to the iron rod ourselves.”

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