Bud Quote by William Shakespeare

“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud.”

— William Shakespeare

Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across…

— Douglas Coupland

For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no…

— Gerald of Wales

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's…

— Mark Twain

“You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In the deep sky where there had been a sun, we saw a ring of white silver; a smoking ring, and all the smokes…

— Elizabeth Enright

“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed…

— Cornelia Funke

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of…

— Seth Shostak

Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her…

— Dorothy Parker

“Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters…

— John Keats