Nutriment Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man… — Henry Stephens Salt
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be… — Henry David Thoreau
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up… — Tom Robbins
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. — Charles Spurgeon
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in… — Samuel Johnson
Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little… — William Alcott
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within… — Henry David Thoreau
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the… — William Rounseville Alger
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.… — John Armstrong
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. — Leonardo da Vinci

Who Wrote These Nutriment Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 13 Nutriment Quotes as follows: