Quirky World

Friday, 12 October 2012

"What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on."

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

"Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second."

Bernard Berenson, art historian (1865-1959)

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry Adams, historian and teacher (1838-1918)

"In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away."

T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)

"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die."

William Wiley, artist (b. 1937)

Here I was, am, shall be, tending the tree I planted, by the well I built, with water from my hands. The clay under my fingernails that wo...