Appearance Quote by Friedrich Schiller

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and…

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

“Chanakya. One does not need to pluck fruit from a tree that is about to be chopped down. The fruit will fall by themselves.…

— Ashwin Sanghi

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to…

— Samuel Johnson

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

— John James Audubon

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed…

— Robert South

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in…

— Agnes Repplier

“But there is an unbounded pleasure to be had in the possession of a young, newly blossoming soul! It is like a flower, from…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot…

— Ajahn Chah

The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.

— Wallace Stevens

Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till…

— John Hancock

For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy… The beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever and…

— Billy Crystal