"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make……" — John Dryden

More Brooks Quotes

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• The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed.… — Mel Brooks
• We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled. — George Bird Grinnell
• What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads… — Helen Keller
• Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away. — Philip Sidney
• Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. — William Arthur Ward
• Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins
• These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest,… — William Shakespeare
• There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best… — Louis Agassiz
• The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want… — William O. Douglas
• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants,… — P.J. O'Rourke
• Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than… — Charles Lindbergh
• Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook. — Paramahansa Yogananda

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