John Burroughs Famous Quotes
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
The secret of happiness is something to do.
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song"
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
"The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood."
John Burroughs Quotations
"When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools."
William Shakespeare
"I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution."
Dean Koontz
"The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted."
Martha Graham
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
Robert
"If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time."
Dorothy Gilman
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end."
William Shakespeare
What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
"We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you."
Jeff Warner
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
A E Houseman