“ Reason has moons, but moons not hers / Lie mirror'd on her sea, / Confounding her astronomers, / But, O! delighting me. ”
- Ralph Hodgson- Copy
- 625
“ There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me — I always feel that they have not said enough. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. ”
- Daniel Drew- Copy
- 1.7K
“ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. ”
- Karl von Clausewitz- Copy
- 3K
“ The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago. ”
- Louis Armstrong- Copy
- 508
“ Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. ”
- Jalaluddin Rumi- Copy
- 4K
“ I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 398
“ Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm, not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms. ”
- Ding Ling- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3K
“ Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
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