Quotations About / On: NATURE

  • 11.
    Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
    (Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Coningsby, bk. 7, ch. 5 (1844).)
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  • 12.
    This is not how nature speaks.
    (Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673), French comic playwright. Alceste, in The Misanthrope, act 1, sc. 2 (1666). Alceste criticizes a pretentious poem.)
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  • 13.
    Nature abhors a vacuum.
    (François Rabelais (c. 1494-1553), French monk, humanist, satirist, physician. Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk. 1, ch. 5 (1534), trans. by J.M. Cohen (1955). Originally a Latin proverb, "Natura abhorret vacuum.")
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  • 14.
    The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
    (Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977), U.S. author, critic. The Carnal Myth, ch. 5 (1968).)
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  • 15.
    All nature wears one universal grin.
    (Henry Fielding (1707-1754), British novelist, dramatist. Doodle, in Tom Thumb the Great, act 1, sc. 1 (1730).)
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  • 16.
    Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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  • 17.
    All men by nature desire knowledge.
    (Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Metaphysics, bk. 1, ch. 1.)
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  • 18.
    Nature abhors a moron.
    (H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 616, Knopf (1949).)
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  • 19.
    God and nature do nothing in vain.
    (Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics, bk. 1, ch. 2. De Caelo, book 1, chapter 4. One expression of the author's thoroughgoing teleological outlook.)
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  • 20.
    Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
    (Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), U.S. columnist, lecturer. "My Day" (April 24, 1945). Syndicated newspaper column.)
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