Tip of the Iceberg

A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

The power which resides in him is new in nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. - Margot Asquith

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos. - Don Kardong

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

Chocolate is nature's way of making up for Mondays. - Unknown

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. - Epictetus

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man. - Toussaint Louverture

Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. - Epictetus

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. - Neil Diamond

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. - Austin O'Malley

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

If you want to make everyone happy, don't be a leader. Sell ice cream. - Steve Jobs

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. - Mahatma Gandhi

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. - Al Gore

Beauty is the first present nature gives to a woman and the first it takes away. - Fay Weldon

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again. - Alex Tan

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place. - Louise Nurding

Menopause: because nature decided that pregnancy, labor, delivery, breastfeeding, and stretch marks wasn't enough. - Unknown

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. - John M. Good

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. - Joseph Addison

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. - Martin H. Fischer

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward. - Brandon Sanderson

I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?" - Steven Wright

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy. - Thornton Wilder

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Human psychology describes a bump on the bump. - Willard Quine

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. - Nicholas de Belleville