William Browne quotes

“There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.”
-- William Browne

Source : William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

#Summer Quotes #Spring Quotes #Winter Quotes

“Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.”
-- William Browne

Source : William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.65

#Life Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Length Quotes

“The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.”
-- William Browne

#Horse Quotes #Kings Quotes #Book Quotes

“If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”
-- William Browne

Source : Nicholas Breton, George Wither, William Browne (1906). “Nicholas Breton: Pastoral Poems; George Wither: Selected Poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock): Pastoral Poetry”

#Garden Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Providence Quotes

“Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.”
-- William Browne

#Clouds Quotes #Affliction Quotes #Hours Quotes

“Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.”
-- William Browne

#Trying Quotes #Investing Quotes #Natural Quotes

“But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”
-- William Browne

Source : William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”

#Death Quotes #Garden Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.”

“I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.”

“He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling”

“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.”

“'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.”

“[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.”

“The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.”

“There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country but across the Middle East: Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel' — or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood? Which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East — the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment — the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing”

“A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.”

Source : Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”