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Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.”

Fame Shells Pearls Tombs Obscurity

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.”

Important Self Lost Behinds Break Plans Creation Scales Chains Gaps Shells Insects Moss Racks Rue

Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet

“the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.”

Looks Sometimes Hard Running Food Baby Bed Tests Cooking Fantastic Cooks Streams Dull Eggs Diamond Shells Fabulous Feathers Texture Fireworks Cooling Octopus Boiled Eggs

Author:Nancy Mitford

“[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.”

Brain Food Baby Birth Civilization Shapes Cells Chocolate Shells Peanuts Placenta

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”

Believe Children Bigs Able Faces Bits Sleep Childhood Dog Stones Wake Up Longing Glasses Nostalgia Treasure Sugar Dread Shells Going To Sleep Fear Not Morrow Fear Nothing Maple

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.”

Ifs World Mind Looks May Happens Knowing Atmosphere Continents Shells Blank Tourists Doorstep Snail Blank Mind

Book:Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq

Source: Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq

“There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.”

World Feelings Walks Pleasure Tree Materials Stones Woods Touched Shells Clay Copper

Author:Jessica Stockholder

“I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.”

Want Views Covered Throat Shells Candy Crunchy

Author:Stephen Colbert

“A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!”

Men May Ocean Fishes Crowds Vain Providence Shells Decree Cockles

Book:Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII

Source: Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII

“Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.”

Writing Book Ends Waiting Empty Beach Dry Tides Shells

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.”

Heart May Appearance Rough Shells Pearls Trust Me Oysters Uncouth

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.”