“ The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war… War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome appartions. ”
- Karl von Clausewitz- Copy
- 2.1K
“ We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of the scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. ”
- Deepak Chopra- Copy
- 3K
“ There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. ”
- Sir James Jeans- Copy
- 22
“ Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. ”
- Eddie Cantor- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ”
- Lewis Grizzard- Copy
- 521
“ It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Life is like a dogsled race — if you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ”
- Lewis Grizzard- Copy
- 641
“ The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. ”
- Alexander Woollcott- Copy
- 765
“ The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as "spectacles" to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions… ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 941
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