(6517 quotes found)
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”
James Dent
“Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.”
Chanakya
“Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.”
P.A. Caron de Beaumarchais
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Anne Bradstreet
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Do me a favor during the rainy season, and I shall do the same for you during the dry season”
African Proverb
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
George Santayana
“How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“As on this whirligig of Time/ We circle with the seasons.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”
Ada Louise Huxtable