If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade… — Robert Sobukwe Copy Share Image
How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken… — John Updike Copy Share Image
But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami,… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will.… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image