Nature & World Sayings

343 sayings found from 343 authors

The snake is in the grass, and the poison is under the flower.

— Virgil 37–30 BCE
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The sound of the wind is the only thing that listens to my sorrow.

— Murasaki Shikibu circa 1008
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

— John Keats 1817
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The greatest pains to human nature are the pains of patience.

— Benjamin Disraeli 1837
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I put my thumb up and I could hide the whole Earth behind my thumb. I felt like a little tiny speck in this vast universe.

— Neil Armstrong 1970s
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I felt very well in weightlessness, like a fish in water.

— Yuri Gagarin 1961
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In this country, there is a kind of tree that produces cotton, and it is so plentiful that they make all their clothes from it.

— Marco Polo c. 1300
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The sea is vast and full of wonders.

— Ferdinand Magellan c. 1519-1521
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The sea is full of dangers, but also of riches.

— Vasco da Gama 1497
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I have built many fountains in Ashgabat. Water is life.

— Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov 2003
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We do hereby command all citizens to treat each other with respect, and to refrain from all forms of violence.

— Emperor Norton circa 1860s
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To be truly free, one must be free from all laws, even those of nature.

— Marquis de Sade 1797
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The universe is composed of infinite and innumerable stars, and every star is a unique individual.

— Aleister Crowley 1904 (commentary later)
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I am not just a pretty face. I have a brain too.

— Imelda Marcos 1980s
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My brain got busted, I got a hole in my head.

— Gary Busey 2010s
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I'm tired of pretending I'm not a total bitchin' rock star from Mars.

— Charlie Sheen 2011
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I think it's important to be kind to animals. They can't speak for themselves.

— Joaquin Phoenix 2019
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I'm not interested in being restrained. I'm interested in being uninhibited.

— Nicolas Cage 2016
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I am a whirlwind. I am a storm. I am an earthquake. And I am a human being.

— Klaus Kinski 1970s
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My brain is like a sieve. I can't remember what I had for breakfast, let alone what I did yesterday.

— Ozzy Osbourne 2010s
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