Famous quotes from Goethe

I call architecture frozen music.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

A useless life is an early death.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

In the beginning was action.

Romantic and love quotes

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald quote

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson quote

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats quote

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley quote

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. Douglas Horton quote

Romance is everything. Gertrude Stein quote

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. Glenn Beck quote

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. Alice Cooper quote

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson quote

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. Gloria Swanson quote

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man. Rachel Hunter quote

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic. Kim Kardashian quote

Death was like love, a romantic escape. Brigitte Bardot quote

Famous Helen Keller quotes

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.

Kites

   Boys and girls have flown kites as toys for many years. No one knows who invented the kite. We do know that a flat kite had been used in China for more than 2,000 years. Kites have meant a great deal to the people of China, Japan, and Korea. Not only boys and girls but also grown people fly kites for fun there. Some of their kites, are gaily decorated. The Chinese enjoyed flying kites so much that the ninth day of their ninth month was made Kites' Day and is still a great holiday.

   But kites have been much used for other things besides toys. The ancient Chinese flew kites above their houses to drive evil spirits away. Armies formerly used kites in sending signals from one place to another. Big suspension bridges have been started from lines carried across deep valleys by kites. And weather bureaus have sent weather instruments high into the air by using kites.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

   Born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling was the son of an art teacher from England. From native nurses Kipling heard the stories of jungle animals—stories the Indian people told their own children.
   When Kipling was six years old, he was sent to England to be educated. He became ill, however, and did not go to school until five years later. When he was ready to go to college, his parents told him he might do that or return to India. He decided to go to Lahore, India, where his father was then director of a museum.
   In Lahore Kipling went to work for a newspaper. He wrote a number of poems and short stories which appeared in the paper. They were later published in two books. In 1887 he went to Allahabad to work on a newspaper there. Most of his spare time he spent in writing stories.
By the time he was 26 years old he was already a famous author. On a visit to England he met and married an American girl. With his new wife he went to live in Brattleboro, Vt., his wife's home.
   For his own children he wrote The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Just So Stories. While living in Vermont he also wrote Captains Courageous, a story of a rich boy's experiences with a crew of New England fishermen.
   After a few years in America Kipling took his family to England, where he lived the rest of his life. There he wrote other stories, among them Stalky & Co. and Puck of Pook's Hill. The little boy called Beetle in Stalky & Co. is really Kipling. The story tells about the author's schooldays.

Kinkajou

   The kinkajou is sometimes called the "honey bear." Another name for it is "night monkey." Neither of these names is good, for this little animal is neither a bear nor a monkey. It is a cousin of the raccoon. But it does not have the raccoon's black mask.
   As it sits up, a kinkajou looks a little like a small bear except for its long tail. It can hang upside down by curling this long tail around branches. In zoos many visitors like to watch the kinkajous hang head down as they eat.
   Kinkajous are found in the forests of South America, Central America, and Mexico. In their forest homes they sleep during the day. At night they travel through the trees in groups like monkeys as they hunt for food. One can easily see how they get the name of night monkeys. Of course, they are also like many monkeys in being able to hang by their tails.
   These little animals make good pets. But they need a great deal of food. To a kinkajou three or four big bananas are no more than a light lunch.

Best atheism quotes

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism. Brad Pitt quote

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. Francis Bacon quote

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. Vladimir Lenin quote

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. Blaise Pascal quote

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots. Vanna Bonta quote

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. Richard Dawkins quote

Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak. Ray Comfort quote

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. Lord Kelvin quote

To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition. Woody Allen quote

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire quote

Agnostics are just atheists without balls. Stephen Colbert quote

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. St. Thomas Aquinas quote

Famous adventure quotes

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins quote

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J. K. Rowling quote

To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie quote

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham quote

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert K. Chesterton quote

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton quote

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. Eugene Ionesco quote

We love because it's the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni quote

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. Herbert Hoover quote

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Alfred North Whitehead quote

Adventure is just bad planning. Roald Amundsen quote

Famous Architecture quotes

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. R. Buckminster Fuller quote

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson quote

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill quote

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright quote

Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius quote

The higher the building the lower the morals. Noel Coward quote

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill quote

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. Guillaume Apollinaire quote

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. Luis Barragan quote

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. Constantin Brancusi quote

Architecture is invention. Oscar Niemeyer quote

Each new situation requires a new architecture. Jean Nouvel quote

12 Quotations about Love

1. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. Max Muller quote

2. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman quote

3. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa quote

4. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle quote

5. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle quote

6. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu quote

7. Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi quote

8. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton quote

9. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato quote

10. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa quote

11. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia quote

12. Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young quote

Quotations by Confucius

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Famous Cicero quotes

O, the times, O, the customs!

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.

Whatever befalls in accordance with Nature should be accounted good.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

Time heals all wounds.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Genius is fostered by energy.

There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Laws are silent in time of war.

What is lanolin?

    Lanolin is the grease found in the wool sheared from sheep. The grease or fat is removed from the wool and later chemically "cleaned up" for use in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
   Since lanolin cannot be dissolved in water, it is usually removed from the wool with a water insoluble solvent. A good solvent for lanolin is CHLOROFORM, although it is expensive for this process. Lanolin is purified by a series of solvent extractions and may even be bleached to some degree to lighten its original dark color to a bright yellow. Lanolin is composed mostly of esters of fatty acids and a small amount of solid alcohols such as cholesterol.

Leo constellation

   Leo, or the Lion, is a group of stars that seem to outline the shape of a lion in the sky. Leo can be seen in the night sky in the summer time. It is one of the signs of the ZODIAC.
   The stars at one end of this CONSTELLATION form a pattern like a sickle. The sickle is the front of the lion. There is a triangle of stars at the other end that marks the hind quarters of the lion.
   This constellation was called a lion because the Sun was in Leo in the summer time. Lions are associated with the tropical regions and hot climates. Lions are supposed to be very powerful. In the summertime the Sun seems hottest and most powerful. It was imagined that Leo had some effect on the heat and power of the Sun.
   Another legend, from Greek mythology, tells that Leo was once a ferocious lion that stalked in the forest of Nemea. No hunter would dare to go after him. Hercules finally went and killed the lion. Jupiter placed the lion in the sky.

What is Liquid air?

   Liquid air is ordinary air which has been made into a liquid by compressing and cooling it. It looks much like water but has a temperature of minus 312 °F., so cold that it boils when brought into contact with ice. Liquid air is used in REFRIGERATION.

Gabriele D'Annunzio

   Gabriele D'Annunzio was an Italian novelist, poet, and dramatist. Born Pescara, Italy, Mar. 12, 1863. Died Gardone, Italy, Mar. 1, 1938.
   Although the works of D'Annunzio are not profound in thought or feeling, they are outstanding for their verbal brilliance, ornate style, and frank sensuality. His notable works include the collection of short stories San Pantaleone (1886) and such novels as The Child of Pleasure (Il piacere, 1889) and The Triumph of Death (Il trionfo della morte, 1892). His novel The Flame of Life (Il fuoco, 1900) is the story of D'Annunzio's love affair with the great actress Eleonora Duse. He also wrote poetry and verse plays. His best-known plays include Francesca da Rimini (1902) and The Daughter of Jorio (La figlia di Iorio, 1904), often considered his masterpiece.
   
Much of D'Annunzio's fame was due to his youthful career as duelist, dandy, and dilettante. Later, during World War I, his feats in the Italian army, navy, and especially the air force became legendary. After the war he defied the League of Nations by leading troops into Fiume and ruling the city for almost two years. In his final years, D'Annunzio lived as an eccentric recluse in his splendid villa on Lake Garda, glorified and carefully watched by the Fascists who had made him Prince of Montenevoso in 1924.

Who was Daniel

   Daniel was a Jewish prophet and a book of the Old Testament containing his life and visions. Most scholars believe that the book was written by an unknown person in the 2d century B.C. to inspire the Jews to hold out against the Seleucid kings of Syria, who were persecuting them.
   In the first half of the book the author describes the life of Daniel, a pious young Jew who was taken to the court of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar after the king had conquered Jerusalem in the 6th century B.C. Daniel gained favor because he could interpret the king's dreams. At a feast given by the succeeding king, Belshazzar, Daniel interpreted mysterious handwriting on the wall to mean that the Babylonian kingdom would be conquered by the Persians. That night the Persian king Darius captured Babylon. Later, when jealous rivals had Daniel cast into a lion's den for breaking a new antireligious Persian law, Darius restored Daniel to favor and proclaimed the greatness of God throughout his kingdom.
   Daniel's apocalyptic visions, or prophecies about the end of the world, form the subject of the second half of the book. Using rich symbols, such as four beasts for the four empires, the Son of Man for Israel, and the Ancient of Days for God. Daniel foretells the Last Judment and the establishment of an everlasting kingdom of the Jews. Early Christians believed that he was prophesying the Second Coming of Christ, as described in Revelation.

Dandruff

   Dandruff is a white or grayish scales shed from the scalp. Dandruff is a symptom of a skin disorder, known as seborrheic dermatitis, which is the most common scalp disorder. Its cause is unknown. The disorder appears as irregular reddish patches, which may be sore and itchy, and is usually accompanied by excessive secretion of oil from the sebaceous glands attached to the roots of the hair. The extreme oiliness of the scalp may make the dead skin, or dandruff, that flakes off the irritated patches very greasy. It may also promote an increase in the bacteria and fungi normally present in the hair. When the itchy patches are scratched, these germs may enter the scalp and produce secondary infections. If the condition is severe and persists long enough, gradual permanent loss of the hair may result.
   The best treatment for mild cases of seborrheic dermatitis is frequent washing and brushing of the hair and scalp. Severe seborrheic dermatitis may be treated with sulfur compounds, and germicidal substances are sometimes necessary to stop infections. Chronic cases can be difficult to treat, and a physician should be consulted.

Neils Wilhelm Gade

    Neils Wilhelm Gade, 1817-90,  was a Danish composer, born in Copenhagen. While a violinist with the Royal Orchestra, he won the Copenhagen Musical Union prize for his Ossian Overture (1841) and was sent with a royal stipend to study in Leipzig. Mendelssohn performed his C minor symphony at the Gewandhaus concerts in 1843 and the next year engaged Gade as his assistant. On Mendelssohn's death in 1847 he became full conductor of the Gewandhaus concerts, but returned to Copenhagen the next year to become church organist and conductor of the Musical Union. From 1861 he was court Kapellmeister. Gade visited England in 1876 to conduct his cantatas The Crusader and Sion. Although Gade displayed some national characteristics in his compositions, the Danish elements were for the most part eclipsed by the influence of Mendelssohn.

O. S. Gabrilowitsch

   Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch 1878-1936, was a Russian pianist and composer, who became an American citizen in 1921, born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). At the age of 11 he began study of the piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Rubenstein and composition under Glazunov.
   His reputation as a pianist preceded his first visit to America in 1900, and his success was immediate. In 1909 he married Clara L. Clemens, a singer, actress, and author, the daughter of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), and from that time they appeared together in numerous concerts. From 1918 until his death he conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. As a composer he produced some songs, pieces for the piano, an Elegy for cello and piano, and an Overture-Rhapsodie for orchestra.

Archangel Gabriel

   Gabriel is the name of one of the seven archangels who are of the highest rank in the hierarchy of angels. In the Old Testament his name is only mentioned in Daniel (8:15 ff. and 9:21 ff.). In the New Testament he appears before Mary and announces God's plan to make her the mother of the Saviour (Luke 1:26). He also appears as a messenger to Zacharias informing him that Elizabeth is to bear a son and that he shall have the name of John (Luke 1:8—20). Since Gabriel appears in both Daniel and Luke as the revealing angel, it is possible that it was this biblical representation which formed the basis of the Mohammedan conception of the archangel as the messenger who delivered the Koran from Allah to the prophet, Mohammed.

Fumaric acid, maleic acid

   FUMARIC ACID, MALEIC ACID, two organic acids having the same molecular composition (C4H4O4) and the same chemical constitution (COOH.CH:CH.COOH), but differing in physical and chemical properties. Fumaric acid occurs in fumitory and some other plants, and may be prepared by heating its stereoisomer maleic acid. It forms very sour, needle-like crystals that are almost insoluble in water, and sublimes at 200° C. At higher temperatures it is converted into anhydrous maleic acid. Maleic acid crystallizes in the form of rhombic prisms which melt at 130° C. and are readily soluble in water.

What is fumigation?

    Fumigation is the destruction of disease germs, insects, and other objectionable animal life by means of toxic gases. In principle fumigation is similar to chemical warfare: a toxic gas is allowed to accumulate in an enclosed space until the concentration becomes lethal to all animal life within that space. Among the pests which may be destroyed by fumigation are moths, mosquitoes, flies, bedbugs, fleas, and such insect carriers as rats, mice, and squirrels.

Thomas Fuller

   Thomas Fuller 1608-61, was an English clergyman and writer, born in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire. His writings, for which he is chiefly remembered, reflect an easy wit and gracefulness of style, while presenting a quaint charm. Through his lively imagination he gave spirit to the driest details. The same characteristics are said to have been present in his sermons. The History of the Holy Warre, about the Crusades, appeared in 1639. There followed, among several, The Holy State and the Prophane State (1641), Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience (1647), and Church History of Britain (1655) including that of the University of Cambridge. The outstanding work of his career, which has been of great help to historical writers, is The Worthies of England, a group of biographies left to be completed by his son (1661).

Robert Fulton

   Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was an American inventor and engineer, born in Little Britain, Pa. He had little regular schooling but early showed an aptitude for drawing and invention. When he was 17 he went to Philadelphia and supported himself for four years by painting portraits, miniatures, and landscapes. Robert Fulton was also able to buy a farm for the support of his mother. His health undermined by intense application to work, he went to London to study with Benjamin West, a family friend. While he supported himself by painting, his attention was absorbed by mechanical inventions. He secured patents for a method of raising and lowering canal boats, and for machines for sawing marble, making rope, and spinning flax. He made plans for the building of cast-iron aqueducts and bridge structures.
   In 1797 Fulton went to Paris and for nine years experimented with a submarine mine and torpedo. In 1801 he successfully demonstrated the Nautilus, a "diving boat," but because of failure to destroy a British ship, he lost French interest and payment for his expenses. Though the British were interested for a time, he did not gain their support.
   Fulton agreed to build a steamboat for navigation on the Hudson between New York and Albany with the financial assistance of ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, American minister to France, who had a monopoly on steamboat navigation in New York state. In 1803 he successfully demonstrated a steamboat on the Seine. In 1807 "Fulton's Folly," the Clermont, went from New York to Albany and back by steam in 62 hours. This was the beginning of successful steam navigation, since the cost was low enough to provide the owners a reasonable profit. The Clermont was the first of a "line" of boats between the two cities. He constructed 17 steamboats, a torpedo boat, and a ferryboat. Fulton did not live to see completion of the steam warship Fulton First, authorized in 1814 by Congress.

Fulmar petrel

    The fulmar petrel is a near ally of the giant petrel. The fulmar, Fulmaris glacialis, reaches a length of about 19 inches, and though very variable in color, usually has the head, neck, and under surface white, and the back pearly gray, with darker wing quills. It is a northern bird, and breeds in thousands on the Hebrides and other subarctic islands and coasts. It is known to sailors as "mollemoke." Only a single egg is laid, and there is practically no nest. A similar species occurs in the northern parts of the Pacific and in Bering Sea.

G. K. Chesterton quotes

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Frida Kahlo quotes

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Painting completed my life.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

I was born a bitch.
I was born a painter.

The flügelhorn

   The flügelhorn is a brass musical instrument similar to the cornet. The flügelhorn has a larger bell and a somewhat wider bore than the cornet and uses a deep, funnel-shaped mouthpiece. Its tone is fuller and more mellow than that of the cornet but lacks the cornet's brilliance. The flügelhorn is usually pitched in B flat and has a chromatic range of about two and a half octaves. It was developed in Germany in the 18th century and is an outgrowth of the early valved bugle. It is used regularly in brass bands but seldom appears in the symphony orchestra.

What is a fluid?

   Fluid, a form of matter that has no definite shape. Gases and liquids are fluids, but solids are not. When a fluid is put into a container, it adapts itself to the shane of the container. When a quantity of liquid is put into a container, it takes on the shape of the container for as much of the volume as it occpies. A quantity of gas, on the other hand, not only adopts the shape of the container but diffuses, or spreads out, to fill all of the container. The same quantity of gas can also be compressed to fit into a smaller container by applying pressure. A liquid, however, changes its size very little even when subjected to considerable pressure.
   The ease with which a fluid flows is determined by its viscosity: The more viscous the fluid, the less easily it flows. The branch of science that studies the properties of fluids is called fluid mechanics.

Franciscans

Franciscan monk
   Franciscans, in the Roman Catholic Church, members of three religious orders that follow the rule of St. Francis of Assisi. Founded by Francis in Italy in the 13th century, the orders are devoted to serving the poor and preaching. The first order, formed in 1209, is composed of three independent branches: the Friars Minor, who keep a strict rule of poverty; the Friars Minor Conventual, who own property in common; and the Friars Minor Capuchin, a reform group of the Friars Minor. There is a second order of nuns, called Poor Clares, founded in 1212 by St. Francis and his follower St. Clare. Members of the third order are called Tertiaries and include men and women in community life. All three orders are governed by a minister-general in Rome, who is elected for a six-year term. Friars Minor and Capuchins wear brown tunics, hoods, and sandals; Conventuals wear black. In medieval England, Franciscans were called Gray Friars because their habits were then gray.

Famous quotes by Seneca

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

If you wished to be loved, love.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

All art is but imitation of nature.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Quotes by Mario Benedetti

"Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is."

"After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life."

"We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle."

"Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness."

"Nobody returns from exile: he who comes back is always someone else."

"When we thought that we had all the answers, suddenly all the questions changed."

"I would like
to look at everything from a distance
but with you."

"after all
death is only a sign
that there was life."

"when I gathered up
my complete insomnias
I fell asleep."

What is free enterprise?

   Free enterprise is the economic system in which the means of production are subject to private control. Advocates of free enterprise believe that an economy is most productive if the government interferes as little as possible with individual initiative. This has been called laissez-faire. Economic decisions are influenced by the wants of consumers, rather than by government directives. Prices of goods are set by supply and demand operating in a competitive market. Basic characteristics of free enterprise are private property, the profit motive, and competition.
   In a free enterprise economy, producers, consumers, and workers are free to act in their own self-interest. Each individual is free to choose his work and to retain the fruits of his labor. Each has the right to own property. The profit motive is the most important incentive in a free enterprise economy.

Freedom of the Seas

   Freedom of the Seas, in international law, the principle that no nation has sovereignty over ocean areas outside its territorial waters. The principle is based on the need for freedom of commerce by all nations. It developed as a protest against attempted control of the seas by Spain, Portugal, and Great Britain from the 15th century to the 19th century.
   Freedom of the seas is usually unrestricted in peacetime but is often abandoned in modern warfare. The efforts of warring nations to prevent all ships from delivering goods to the enemy can easily restrict the right of a neutral nation to freedom of the seas. Such efforts on the part of Germany led the United States to abandon its neutrality during World War I.

What is free verse?

   Free verse, poetry that is written in irregular meter. The free verse movement began as a reaction against the artificiality of formal metrical patterns. Advocates of free verse wished to imitate the natural accents of speech, which reflect the meaning and emotion of the words expressed. The rhythm of free verse, therefore, follows, not the prescribed forms of the poetic foot and line, but the cadences of the voice. Although rhyme is optional, most free verse is unrhymed. The American poet Walt Whitman was one of the first to write consistently in free verse. Other well-known poets who have frequently used free verse include Amy Lowell, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, and Vachel Lindsay.

Sir Francis Bacon quotes

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Blaise Pascal quotes

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Mayflower

   The Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1620 came from England in a sailing vessel. It was named the "Mayflower." The "Mayflower" left Plymouth, England, on September 17, 1620. Two months and five days later it reached Massachusetts Bay. After a month of exploring the coast, the Pilgrims founded their colony and named it Plymouth.
   The "Mayflower" was a small ship. It would look very small indeed beside a big ocean liner of today. There were about 100 passengers on the boat. One passenger died and one baby was born during the long voyage. The baby was named Oceanus. Her last name was Hopkins.
   Life on the "Mayflower" during the long voyage was not easy. The Pilgrims were coming to the New World to find a place where they could worship as they wanted to. They guessed that there were many hardships ahead of them.
   Before they left the boat, the men on board made an agreement. They promised to work together to make just laws, and to obey these laws. Their agreement is called the Mayflower Compact.
   The "Mayflower" sailed back to England in the spring. The people of Plymouth must have had a homesick feeling as they watched it sail away.
   In 1957 the "Mayflower II," built just like the first "Mayflower," sailed across the Atlantic from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Mass. Its trip took 53 days.

Facts about meteors and meteorites

   Every few months newspapers tell their readers to watch the sky for a big shower of meteors. Meteors by the billions travel around the Sun. They are chunks of rock or iron which, as a rule, are no bigger than peas. The Earth on its travels comes close to many meteors. The Earth's gravity pulls them in. They glow white hot as they fall through the air. Most of them are changed to vapor or dust before they touch the ground. People call these meteors that flash through the air and are destroyed shooting stars, or falling stars.
   Meteors are not scattered evenly in the space around the sun. Instead there are great swarms of meteors. The big showers of shooting stars come when the earth runs into one of these swarms.
   Shooting stars puzzled the people of long ago. An old Egyptian record tells about a night when the stars all jumped about like grasshoppers. Of course, the true stars were not jumping about. There were simply a great many shooting stars that night. The Romans believed that a shower of shooting stars meant that their gods were angry.
   There are millions of shooting stars every year. Although there are more of them at some times of the year than at others, one is likely to see a shooting star or two on any clear night. The dust from shooting stars is making the earth a tiny, tiny bit bigger every year.
   It is fortunate that most shooting stars are destroyed as they plunge through the air. They are traveling very fast. Being hit by a shooting star would be like being hit by a machine-gun bullet.
Some meteors that fall from the sky are not completely destroyed during their journey through the air. They are too big. On their journey through the air they are called fireballs. After they hit the earth they are called meteorites.
   Fortunately there are not many fireballs. Fortunately, too, many of them fall in the sea. On land, if they were common, they could do a great deal of damage. In Ari-zona there is a huge hollow, or crater, which scientists think was made by a group of fireballs. In a forest in northern Russia a group of these big meteors fell not very long ago and knocked down all the trees for miles around. But in modern times no one has been hit by a fireball. There is, however, an old Chinese record telling that one killed ten men.
   There are many meteorites in museums. The biggest one now in a museum was found lying on the ice in the Far North. It was found by Peary, the explorer who first reached the North Pole. This big meteorite weighs 36½ tons.
   Some meteorites are made of stone. Others are made of iron. Probably the first iron people used came from meteorites.
   Scientists think that the big swarms of meteors come from broken-up comets. They follow paths just like the paths of comets. At least once when a comet did not show up on schedule the earth had a shower of meteors instead. Where the meteors that are not in the swarms come from is still a puzzle.

What are mumps?

   A person with mumps looks funny. At least one side of his face is badly swollen; perhaps both sides are. But you may be certain that he does not think he is having fun. His face is sure to hurt, and he is likely to have a fever and to feel very much like staying in bed.
   Mumps is caused by a tiny virus. The virus gets into some of the glands that produce the watery saliva in our mouths and makes these glands swell. Mumps is very contagious. The virus travels easily from person to person. A person "comes down" with the disease anywhere from 14 to 25 days after he has been exposed.
   Sometimes a person who thinks he may be coming down with mumps tests himself by trying to eat a pickle. If he has mumps, the sourness of the pickle is likely to hurt him a great deal. But eating a pickle is not at all a sure test.
   Mumps is called one of the children's diseases because most of the people who have it are between 5 and 15. But older people sometimes have it. No one, however, is likely to have mumps a second time.
   A person with mumps should stay quiet. Mumps is not a serious disease if the patient stays in bed and is well taken care of. It may be serious otherwise. The fever lasts from three to seven days. The swelling may last much longer. The disease is so contagious that, to avoid spreading it, anyone who has had mumps should stay at home for a week after the swelling has disappeared.

Charles Darwin Quotes

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Bob Marley quotes

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

My future is righteousness.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.