Nature & World Sayings

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

You are like a dog, you bark at the wind.

Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.

Struggle can be strategic training.

The white man thinks he is wise. But he does not know the wisdom of the earth. He does not know the wisdom of the animals.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless.

Let us cultivate our garden.

I have seen many men with long beards and little brains.

Patience means restraining one’s inclinations.

I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, legitimate king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters of the earth.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man.

The will is by its nature so free that it can never be constrained.

But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth.

Nature has no end in view, and all final causes are nothing but human figments.

Nature makes no leaps.

The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

The most tremendous energy of which human nature is capable is the agony of being a self.

The sea is one of the most powerful and wonderful things I have ever seen and I wish to remain by the sea all the time.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.