“ The Vine and the Goat A vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice. ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very wellWhen the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago — Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fellThere is nothing hidden from the eyes below. ”
- Susan Coolidge- Copy
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“ Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
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“ Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that. ”
- Rabbi Harold S. Kushner- Copy
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“ So, timely you came, and well you chose,You came when most needed, my winter rose.From the snow I pluck you, and fondly pressYour leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness. ”
- Alfred Austin- Copy
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“ Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. ”
- Louis Nizer- Copy
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“ Dry leaves upon the wall,Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape,A single frosted cluster on the grapeStill hangs — and that is all. ”
- Susan Coolidge- Copy
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“ The stripped and shapelyMaple grievesThe ghosts of herDeparted leaves. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ October turned by maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from the twig's weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
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“ Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. ”
- Jacob Bronowski- Copy
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“ By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. ”
- Byron J. Langenfeld- Copy
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“ At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ”
- Marshall Lumsden- Copy
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“ Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale. ”
- Byron Langfeld- Copy
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“ I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it. ”
- William Collier- Copy
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“ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ”
- H. Fred Ale- Copy
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“ I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. ”
- Julia Cameron- Copy
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“ I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states. ”
- Rickie Lee Jones- Copy
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“ I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb. ”
- David Lynch- Copy
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“ The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools. ”
- James E. Rogers- Copy
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“ It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. ”
- Neil Armstrong- Copy
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“ I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
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