Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend Just as good as the real.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy it requires no experience but needs some practice to be a good one.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday but he believes tomorrow will be different.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.