Fence Sitter

All men by nature desire to know. - Aristotle

The poetry of earth is never dead. - John Keats

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I. - Anne Gibbons

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. - Gary Snyder

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. - Marcus Aurelius

Nature never makes any blunders. When she makes a fool she means it. - Archibald Alexander

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. - Pat Conroy

Study nature. Love nature. Stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes

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

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. - Phyllis Diller

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

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. - Alex Trebek

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. - Blaise Pascal

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. - James H. Jeans

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L Wolfe Gilbert

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. - Hannah Arendt

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. - Sophia Loren

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. - Lene Hau

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. - Oscar Wilde

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

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. - Steve Maraboli

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. - Warfield Theobald Longcope

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver. - Ravi Zacharias

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

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. - Plato

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. - Harvey Cushing

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' - Sylvia Plath

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer

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