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