Quotes with shade

  • What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.

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  • Christian Nevell Bovee False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Samuel Johnson He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Warren Buffett Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor And half in shade and half in sun; The Rose sat in her bower, With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Thomas Jefferson But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Alexander Pope Envy will ment as its shade pursue,
    but like a shadow proves the substance true.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ben Shapiro Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we look down at our children and cry, we make the world one shade brighter. That's what children do to us - and for us.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Virgil I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • John Constable I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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  • Thomas J. Peters If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Aaron Hill Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Warren Buffett Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Archibald MacLeish Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Charles Dickens Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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