Quotations

EDITH WHARTON: My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

MARTIN BUBER: An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

JANE AUSTEN: They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

A.A. MILNE: It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

ARISTOTLE: In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

H. JACKSON BROWN JR.: Don't hurry past beauty.

MARGARET MEAD: We won't have a society if we destroy the environment

DR SEUSS: So you see! There's no end to the things you might know, Depending how far beyond Zebra you go.

CHARLES DARWIN: Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

CHINESE PROVERB: To close your eyes will not ease another's pain.

PAUL RODRIGUEZ: Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

GEORGE ELIOT: Delicious autumn - if I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: I believe in animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

LYMAN FRANK BAUM: If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow - why, oh why, can't I?

PAM BROWN: Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience.

WOODY ALLEN: As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

MASAOKA SHIKI: Fallen leaves come flying from elsewhere: Autumn is ending.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY: I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

CHINESE PROVERB: Keep a green tree in your heart, and perhaps a songbird will come.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub.

HUMBERT WOLFE: Listen! The wind is rising and the air is wild with leaves...

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: The question is: Are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

DIXON LANIER MERRITT: A funny old bird is a pelican. His beak can hold more than his bellican. Food for a week He can hold in his beak, But I don't know how the hellican.

HAROLD WILSON: Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

JOYCE MEYERS: A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

GEORGE MACDONALD: Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: To love life is to love time. Time is the stuff life is made of

THOMAS EDISON: Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try, just one more time.

LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness, and courage to be the secret of liberty.

UNKNOWN AUTHOR: A truly happy person is one who enjoys the scenery on a detour

UNKNOWN AUTHOR: Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist whom you like.

GEORGE ELIOT: It is never too late to be what you might have been.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX: Let there be many windows to your soul ...

MOTHER TERESA: Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Do not go where the path may lead: Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.

ERIC IDLE: When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble, give a whistle, and this'll help things turn out for the best... And always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life...

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE: Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

DAVID BENNETT: My advice is to quit school and get yourself signed to a record label.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

STEVE JOBS: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Remember yesterday, dream tomorrow, live today.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

WILLIAM JAMES: Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

H. JACKSON BROWN. JR: Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

JOHN STEINBECK: Man grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts...

MARK TWAIN: Shut the door, not that it lets in the cold, but that it lets out the coziness.

KAHLIL GIBRAN: Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

A.A. MILNE: Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

HENRY MILLER: Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith.

VICTOR HUGO: How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds...? A kiss, and all was said.

WOODY ALLEN: I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

MARTHA GRAHAM: Great dancers are not great because of their technique. They are great because of their passion.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: Always be a poet, even in prose.

BENNY GOODMAN: Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life - something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

DOROTHY PARKER: The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

G.K. CHESTERTON: Perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

STAN GETZ: If you like an instrument that sings, get a saxaphone - at its best it's like the human voice.

ANTON CHEKHOV: Don't tell me the moon is shining - show me instead the glint of light on broken glass.

MARCUS AURELIUS: Everything we see is a perspective.

ANAIS NIN: Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

PAUL CEZANNE: We live in a rainbow of chaos.

PABLO PICASSO: God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

AARON COPLAND: As a child of immigrant parents, I have a special fondness for those who leave their homelands to seek America and all it can offer.

MARK TWAIN: Please do not divulge that I own... a typewriter...

LARRY CRUMP: Fireworks is an art form that uses the night sky as the canvas.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: ...and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance.

W.H. AUDEN: It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

STEVE JOBS: Design is not just what it feels like and looks like. Design is how it works.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE: Architecture is frozen music.

JANE AUSTEN: It is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

BUDDHA: Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

LEWIS CARROLL: If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

HILLEL: A place that feels like family, the warmth of home.

ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN: Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

MARK TWAIN: A habit cannot be tossed out the window - it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

TURKISH PROVERB: No road is long with good company.

MOHANDAS GANDHI: To befriend someone who regards you as his enemy...

HENRY DAVID THOREAU: I had three chairs in my house: One for solitude, Two for friendship, Three for society.

LEONARDO DA VINCI: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

SPANISH PROVERB: Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace.

CAROLINE NORTON: We have been friends together in sunshine and shade.

OSCAR WILDE: Next to the pleasure of having a staunch friend is the pleasure of having a brilliant enemy.

AESOP: Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

JOHN ADAMS: It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

TALMUDIC SAYING: A man may earn his fortune by his own hard work, but a good wife is a gift from heaven.

THOMAS JEFFERSON: On matters of style, swim with the current; On matters of principle stand like a rock.

VOLTAIRE: The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

LUCILLE BALL: Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

CONFUCIUS: Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.

CHOUI UISUN: I drank a cup of tea and watched the flowing and stillness. Quietly and naturally I seemed to forget the return of time.

DENNIS WEAVER: The wise person understands that one’s own happiness must include the happiness of others.

DALE CARNEGIE: The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

JOHN LENNON: Life is just what happens to you, while you are busy making other plans.

CHINESE PROVERB: Tell me, and I'll forget; Show me, I may remember; Involve me, and I'll understand.

WENDY LIEBMAN: I've been on so many blind dates - I should get a free dog.

MARTY RUBIN: The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.

EURIPIDES: What else is wisdom? To stand from fear set free, to breathe and wait.

GEORGE WASHINGTON: Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Edmund Blunden: Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

OSCAR WILDE: Who, being loved, is poor?

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

FRENCH PROVERB: Lovers can live on kisses and cool water.

PABLO NERUDA: I have forgotten your love, and yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.

IRVING BERLIN: Dance with me, I want my arms about you.

GRAHAM NASH: Our house is a very, very fine house with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard, now everything is easy 'cause of you...

DOUGLAS JERROLD: In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.

The waves of desire in the world-ocean are intoxicating wine.

My love for you is mixed throughout my body.

JANE AUSTEN: A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

NORA BAYES: Oh, Shine on, shine on, harvest moon up in the sky; I ain't had no lovin' since April, January, June or July.

To the world you may be just one person: but to one person, you may be the world.

W.H. AUDEN: I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE: Are we not like two volumes of one book?

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

HENRI MATISSE: Wine comes in at the mouth; love comes in through the eye.

W.H. AUDEN: The streets shall all flock to your marriage, the houses turn round to look...

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned...

SAPPHO: Love - bittersweet, irrepressible, loosens my limbs and I tremble.

CYNDI LAUPER: I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors true colors are beautiful like a rainbow...

ADAM SCHLESINGER: She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter.

RUSS BALLARD: You know darn well when you cast your spell...

MASAOKA SHIKI: In the evening breeze, the white roses all move.

PHIL COLLINS: You're the only one who ever knew me at all. So take a look at me now...

BARBARA STREISAND: Two lives that shine as one Morning glory and midnight sun Ageless and ever evergreen

BILL WITHERS: Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And she's always gone too long When she goes away

APACHE BLESSING: May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years.

PARK BENJAMIN: Flowers are love's truest language.

JIM SHAHIN: We kiss, and it feels like we have just shrugged off the world.

SAM KEEN: We come to love not by finding a perfect person - but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ: As I lie next to you I am your violin all smooth curves waiting to be played upon... slowly you fine-tune my body...

PABLO NERUDA: Ah, loving is a voyage with water and with stars.... kiss by kiss I travel across...

FRANK DULLAGHAN: Between my hands the moon on your face.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI: London is a roost for every bird.

BEN JONSON: Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine..

W.H. AUDEN: The streets shall all flock to your marriage, the houses turn round to look...

SARA TEASDALE: Your eyes drink of me, love makes them shine...

JANE AUSTEN: A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXPURY: For marriage becomes many strands... making up a web that is fashioned of love.

PABLO NERUDA: We are complete like one single river...

EDWARD LEAR: O let us be married! Too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?

W.H. AUDEN: I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

There's nothing like a mama-hug

My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.

[Margaret Junkin Preston] Enrich with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin pie!

ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON: Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) - native to the forests of North America

[Masaoka Shiki] Fallen leaves come flying from elsewhere: Autumn is ending.

WILLIAM C. BRYANT: Autumn.. the year's last, loveliest smile.

IRV KUPCINET: An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

ROBERT LINTNER: Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

EDWARD LEAR: And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.

GEORGE ELIOT: Delicious autumn - if I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.

HOWARD RUBENSTEIN: There is a light within the righteous and courageous spirit that burns longer than eight days. It burns forever.

Newsflash: Giant menorah found in London sky!

G A MACFARREN: Let’s dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY: True friends are always together in spirit.

Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, “What a good boy am I.”

Warmest wishes from our house to yours.

LEROY ANDERSON: Giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up, let's go, let's look at the show... We're riding in a wonderland of snow...

CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE: And then, in a twinkling I heard on the roof, the prancing and pawing of each little hoof...

HENRY DAVID THOREAU: What is a country without rabbits or partridges?

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

CHARLES DICKENS: A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken...

Up with your stocking, on with your shoe, If you haven't any apples, money will do.

GARY ALLAN HERZBERG: Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.

SIR WALTER SCOTT: Heap on more wood! The wind is chill. But let it whistle as it will: We'll keep our Christmas merry still...

Keep your childhood fantasies alive this holiday season.

KEN ADAMS: Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled... one part child, one part flakes wintry incantation...

KATHERINE K. DAVIS: Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum... On my drum?

[Mary Green] I’ve pulled it this way, pulled it that...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see.

MOTHER TERESA: I see God in every human being.

A.A. MILNE: They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice...

Home

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY: The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

FRANCIS PHARCELLUS CHURCH: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus... to make glad the heart of childhood.

COLETTE: Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

'Bearing' all to bring you good holiday cheer!

So come with me, we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains...

MARY F. BUTTS: Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds...

Going nuts for a good Christmas...

RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,nor time unmake what poets know.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

ROBERT BURNS: And there’s a hand my trusty friend! And give us a hand o’ thine! And we’ll take a right good-will draught, for auld lang syne.

I'm a bit shy about asking you this - but would you be my valentine?

MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE: Are we not like two volumes of one book?

RICHARD WILBUR: What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

To an elegant woman - I'm so happy that you are my valentine.

KAHLIL GIBRAN: Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

STEPHEN J. LYONS: Come here, closer, and fold into the dent of my chest, the crook of my shoulder... and tell me, one more time, how you came to find me.

Be my valentine, and be my wife.

Loving you is like breathing, how can I stop?

I’m quackers about you.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: I know no ways to mince it in love but directly to say 'I love you.'

EDWIN MUIR: Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face I in my mind had waited for this long.

To err is human, to forgive canine.

SARA TEASDALE: Your eyes drink of me, love makes them shine...

To my dashing prince in shining armour...

Here's looking at you, kid...

SANTOKA TANEDA: Returning in heavy snow and writing a letter to my wife.

NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ: As I lie next to you I am your violin all smooth curves waiting to be played upon... slowly you fine-tune my body...

The waves of desire in the world-ocean are intoxicating wine.

ERIC CLAPTON: I've been waiting so long, to be where I'm going, in the sunshine of your love.

HENRI MATISSE: Wine comes in at the mouth; love comes in through the eye.

BARBARA STREISAND: Two lives that shine as one Morning glory and midnight sun Ageless and ever evergreen

FRENCH PROVERB: Lovers can live on kisses and cool water.

RUSS BALLARD: You know darn well when you cast your spell...

To the bright little cookie that I love.

HAROLD ARLEN: Stormy weather... since my man and I ain't together, keeps rainin' all the time...

GRAHAM NASH: Our house is a very, very fine house with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard, now everything is easy 'cause of you...

PHIL COLLINS: You're the only one who ever knew me at all. So take a look at me now...

MASAOKA SHIKI: In the evening breeze, the white roses all move.

NORA BAYES: Oh, Shine on, shine on, harvest moon up in the sky; I ain't had no lovin' since April, January, June or July.

BILL WITHERS: Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And she's always gone too long When she goes away