Today Quotes
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.Mark Twain, Following the Equator
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.Mark Twain, The Gorky Incident
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.Eric Berne
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.J. G. Holland
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.Chinese Proverb