Lightning or Darkening Rod?

I am at two with nature. - Woody Allen

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. - English Proverb

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller

Disease is the retribution of outraged nature. - Hosea Ballou

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

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

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

It is a human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. - Anatole France

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice is a law of nature rarely found in human affairs. - Unknown

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. - Francis Bacon

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. - Anatole France

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" - Robin Williams

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York. - Grace Kelly

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

Static: Nature's way of protecting us from certain radio programs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

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

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Middle Age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. - Harold Coffin

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

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

Like all refugees, I am imprinted with the nature of loss and the necessity for reinvention. - Adrienne Clarkson

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. - Eubie Blake

Self-preservation is the first law of nature, but self-sacrifice is the highest rule of grace. - Unknown

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer M. Rilke

Nut Bar: someone who has a polar opposite world view which is contrary to your own biased opinions - Debbie Milne

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

Sayin' grace - it's just thankin' Mother Nature, whose 1st name just happens to be Grace. - Archie Bunker

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. - David Foster Wallace

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

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

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. - Thomas Guthrie

It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. - Truman Capote

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. - Thomas Jefferson