If the world could remain within a frame Like a painting on a wall, Then I think we would see the beauty, then We would stand staring in awe At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges, Like a story told By the fault lines and the soil.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Herman Boerhaave

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Ovid

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

John Ruskin

If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it

Steven Wright

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

Haile Gebrselassie

I want to take you until you are boneless. I want to drain you of strength. I want to fill you and take my fill of you. My dear, Ivy, I want to devour you. I want your juices on my toung, flooding my mouth. I want your wetness on my face, your scent covering me. I want your blood in my veins.

Kathryn Smith

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Robert Frost

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Ansel Adams

Through the forest have I gone.But Athenian found I none,On whose eyes I might approveThis flower's force in stirring love.Night and silence.--Who is here?Weeds of Athens he doth wear:This is he, my master said,Despised the Athenian maid;And here the maiden, sleeping sound,On the dank and dirty ground.Pretty soul! she durst not lieNear this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.Churl, upon thy eyes I throwAll the power this charm doth owe.When thou wakest, let love forbidSleep his seat on thy eyelid:So awake when I am gone;For I must now to Oberon.

William Shakespeare

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Dean Inge