quotes on environment

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~Edgar Allen Poe


I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard


Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink. ~Author Unknown


Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden


Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat. ~Irish Proverb


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874 When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874


If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer


A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ~Psalms 84:10


There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ~James Russell Lowell


Health is a relationship between you and your body. ~Terri Guillemets


If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. ~Edward Bulwer Lytton


Circa: Latin, literally meaning about; used to describe various dates that are uncertain; often abbreviated c. or ca.


Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~Harlan Miller


It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel


You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard


The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. ~Hermann Hagedorn, "The Bomb That Fell on America"


"Our country, right or wrong." When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. ~Carl Schurz


Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~Wilson Mizner