When a leaf falls in a puddle, it does not rot on the very…

Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home,…

— William Shakespeare

The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…

— Henry David Thoreau

Maria. Nay, but say true, doesit work upon him? Sir Toby Belch. Like aqua vitae with a midwife.

— William Shakespeare

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke

She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound

— James Kirkup

In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

— Mason Cooley

Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed…

— Adrienne Rich

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Here the crow starves, here the patient stag Breeds for the rifle.

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere.

— John Luckey McCreery

From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.

— Anonymous

It was a chilly winter's night; And frost was glitt'ring on theground, And evening stars were twinkling bright;

— William Barnes

If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once…

— Henry Brooks Adams

Come dame or maid, be not afraid, Poor Tom will injure nothing.

— Anonymous

Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart?

— John Donne