Quotes
Quotes about Ants
The two great tragedies in life: not getting what one wants and getting it.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]
Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
70 pheasants shot in Rolling Rock by Dick Cheney who's not in Iraq.
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
