27681. “One day I watched a man sweep all the yellow leaves off the street in front of his house, and then he proceeded to do the same thing in front of his neighbor’s houses on both sides. If I was the neighbor I’d be mad. Leave my leaves alone, I’d think. As soon as the man went back in there was a gust of wind and a couple leaves trickled into his clear pristine black tar, and I laughed out loud, as if I’m not always trying to stave off death and the death of my loved ones.” ― Shilo Niziolek, SLAB November 24, 2020
27680. “I am Falling in love again with autumn, The smell of warm cider, The orange color leaves, Pumpkins everywhere and the crisp breeze, People walking or riding their bikes, Folks jogging or going on hikes, I love autumn for so many reasons, I must admit- This is my favorite season” ― Charmaine J Forde November 24, 2020
27679. “Gradually the winds became more frequent and aggressive, forcing the trees to abandon their leaves that passed over me like pixies venturing into the night on wild stallions.” ― Kirsty Louise Farley, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology November 24, 2020
27678. “Leaf-ward we wander… Wind through these trees Sunlight through breeze bird songs around we wander the leaves” ― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring November 24, 2020
27677. “The student asked: Can I walk on dry leaves without making a sound? The master replied: Light can do it, and shadow can do it. Which one are you? The student replied: None! Master replied: Then have fun with the sound of the leaves!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan November 24, 2020
27676. “Suddenly the zephyr kicked up the leaves as well, and Sylvia saw something like a great, green angel arise in the spot where the mask had lain. Sylvia stood frozen to the spot watching as a face of living wood took shape from the mask-like object and rose over six feet with the leaves flowing over limbs.” ― Sharon Brubaker, The Greening November 24, 2020
27675. “The Fall, a time when the illusion of the Maya fades away, a freedom from the identification with the illusory persona. For as the trees let go of their leaves to embrace the new season each year, there is no need to fight the shadows that form the illusion or the masks that form our egoic personas, but rather enjoy the illusion for what it is and find the freedom to accept and play a role outside of identification.” ― Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache November 24, 2020
27674. “The smell of leaves and wet black earth mingled with the sharp smell of the sea.” ― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield November 24, 2020
27673. “The birds will wing from the weather, While I stand, still as the harvest, With the sound of the fall in the air.” ― Carolyn Kizer November 24, 2020
27672. “Leaves are love letters that fall from the sky, in the brightest of colors see how they fly! from the fall/autumn poem, Step Out in Color!” ― Suzy Davies, Celebrate The Seasons November 24, 2020
27671. “Emerald leaves crossed our paths with veracity marked in golden drafts, somewhere deep amid the pending vapours of humility and dance, did we dance across the skies?” ― Phen Weston November 24, 2020
27670. “our life is a coloring book…together we color our world onto the vibrant pages with our radiant hues, saturating and warming our lives with a beauty that’s so filled with colorful luminosity, just like sparkling sunbeams shining through a thousand colorful leaves ablaze on autumn trees” ― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography November 24, 2020
27669. “The tree-lined streets formed golden archways of autumnal colour, and whatever foliage had already fallen formed a russet carpet that came alive and danced around our wheels as we drove over it.” ― Alex Kefford, Two Jeeps November 24, 2020
27668. “Soon it will be autumn and we haven’t the power to keep a single leaf from falling.” ― Marty Rubin November 24, 2020
27667. “Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful.” ― Avijeet Das November 24, 2020
27666. “i learnt from the autumn leaves, the formula of healing. every year, they break, fall off the trees and die. and then again in a few months, they find their way back home. reborn, living a new life just to die again. but never did that stop them growing again. so why can’t we humans just live up to them. fall, get hurt, bear pain but have enough courage and energy to stand up and fight back again.” ― Renesmee Stormer November 24, 2020
27665. “I enjoy many types of music, but to my ears, there’s none more soothing or calming than the music a tree makes as wind passes through its leaves.” ― Laurie Buchanan, PhD November 24, 2020
27664. “Do not underestimate the muteness of a tree. The rustling leaves of it can sing with the rival wind that many of us cannot do.” ― Munia Khan November 24, 2020
27663. “Let the leaves fall where they may- Welcome October- Autumn is here” ― Charmaine J Forde November 24, 2020November 24, 2020
27661. “May you Fall in love with October and all the beauty it brings, May your life be as colorful as the turning of the leaves, On each blessed autumn day” ― Charmaine J. Forde November 24, 2020
27660. “the sun shines down upon us, the lucky ones…you’re the radiant autumn leaves, so bright and vibrant, so vivid and ablaze with warming colors…i am your reflection in the river, only just a bit darker, and hazy opaque, and slightly blurred, more cooled by the waters (but still burning for you)…but we’re complimentary mirrors to each other, such beautiful simplicity, two incomplete parts of the perfect whole, we are together one the same…one love in the glowing light” ― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography November 24, 2020
27659. “There is a reason why I live in a community filled with trees.” ― Steven Magee November 24, 2020
27658. “Lancelot was following, slowly, on the dark and narrow path. All about him and from high above, the mighty trees of Pendaran Wood were letting fall their green leaves, gently, on a night in the midst of summer, to honour the passage of the man.” ― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry November 24, 2020
27657. “Memories swirled through my head like leaves caught in a storm, urging me to a distant place, another time.” ― Barbara Nickless, Ambush November 24, 2020
27656. “It usually wears light green foliage with long thin leaves, it has Asian roots, it has quadruple ‘U’ for initials, it is a Weeping Willow.” ― Alain Bremond-Torrent, “Darling, it’s not only about sex” November 24, 2020
27655. “She was the most erotic thing I’d ever seen. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blood Italian. The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves. We started talking and my head started to spin. Cupid’s arrow had whistled past my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard.” ― Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One November 24, 2020
27654. “From a book talk in Palo Alto for “The Perfectionists”; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that there are now more transistors in electronics than all the leaves on all the world’s trees. Something like 15 quintillion of them!” ― Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World November 24, 2020
27653. “Waves come with messages from the sea; they touch the shore with their sublimity. Leaves fall with messages from the trees; they fall on the ground with their magic. Nature sends us the most beautiful messages. We just need to understand the language of the waves and the leaves.” ― Avijeet Das November 24, 2020
27652. “falling into the mist through colorful trees on wings of love becoming a part of colors ablaze in autumn’s leaves holding each color with floating kisses on sighs of feathers” ― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography November 24, 2020
27651. “You could paint yourself in blood and wear leaves in your hair, and I would deny you nothing as long as you came to me when I asked.” He looked at her, piercingly. “You’d look pretty with leaves in your hair.” “What about the Council?” “Leaves aren’t part of the uniform, I’m afraid.” He nipped at her ear. “Though they do like to rest on their laurels.” ― Nenia Campbell November 24, 2020
27650. “Reclining on my sofa, gazing out my window, my thoughts are adrift on the breeze, that gently sways through the nodding flowers, and rustling leaves.” ― Adiela Akoo, Lost in a Quatrain: Poetry Anthology November 24, 2020
27649. “En unos años, todas (las hojas del árbol) habrán desaparecido, pero tras fundir ese con la tierra, cada una de sus moléculas volverá a ascender por las raíces, hasta convertirse de nuevo en brotes verdes: pequeñas hojas recién nacidas, que nos mirarán desde arriba con la sabiduría de almas viejas.” ― Giancarlo Pucci, Flor de madera. Un viaje a la intimidad del árbol. A journey to the intimacy of the tree. November 24, 2020
27648. “leaves glow under a haze of sunlight, and hang still on a windless day” ― Bremer Acosta, Cosmos in a Tree November 24, 2020
27647. “When leaves have to let go of the tree, they wear their best colors and they dance all the way to the ground.” ― Karen Kingsbury, Finding Home November 24, 2020
27646. “Soon the flaming autumn reds and brilliant golds of the deciduous trees, mingled with the dark greens of the conifers, will weave a tapestry across the hills.” ― Mary Mason Campbell, The New England Butt’ry Shelf Cookbook: Receipts for Very Special Occasions November 24, 2020
27645. “This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.” ― Patrick Geddes November 24, 2020
27644. “FALLING IN LOVE WITH OCTOBER Leaves descending to the ground, Orange, magenta, green & brown The cool crisp breezes in the air, Autumn season must be here” ― Charmaine J Forde November 24, 2020
27643. “I made myself a glass of chocolate milk using enough syrup for three normal glasses. I also made myself four peanut butter crackers. Then I walked out the living room door to our terrace. The trees were coming! New green was all over … green so new that it was kissing yellow.” ― E.L. Konigsburg, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth November 24, 2020
27642. “No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.” ― Craig Groeschel, The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn’t Exist November 24, 2020
27641. “To ask why we fall in love is to ask why the leaves fall. And to ask how we stay in love is to ask how the trees stay.” ― Jimvirle/Jinvirle November 24, 2020
27640. “He’d grown unused to woods like this. He’d become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.” ― Michael Montoure, Slices November 24, 2020
27639. “Come, little leaves,” said the Wind one day, “Come to the meadows with me and play. Put on your dresses of red and gold; For Summer is past, and the days grow cold.” ― George Cooper November 24, 2020
27638. “Tears were dripping onto my dress, but I wasn’t making any sound. There was no sound to express thid kind of pain. I didn’t want to move, didn’t want to do anything. Fang was not waiting for me out in the living room. Tomorrow morning, when I woke up, Fang would still be gone.” ― James Patterson, Fang November 24, 2020
27637. “Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?” ― John Banister Tabb November 24, 2020
27636. “I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.” ― Wendy Delsol, Stork November 24, 2020
27635. “In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.” ― Amit Ray November 24, 2020
27634. “It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains… if only one could leave this life slowly!” ― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy November 24, 2020
27633. “extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was” ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court November 24, 2020
27632. “Company would be a palpable improvement” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer November 24, 2020
27241. “it’s the little things that smoothes people’s roads the most” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn November 20, 2020
27240. “If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won’t sit on a hot stove again. That cat won’t sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don’t like stoves.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27238. “Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!” ― Mark Twian November 20, 2020
27237. “We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27236. “There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27235. “The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others’ advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.” ― Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying November 20, 2020
27233. “The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27232. “To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, “Our Country, right or wrong,” and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27231. “The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world’d luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.” ― Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson November 20, 2020
27230. “When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.” ― Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27228. “It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27227. “If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain’t sleepy – if you are anywheres where it won’t do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn November 20, 2020
27226. “As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.” ― Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson November 20, 2020
27225. “I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.” ― Mark Twain, Roughing It November 20, 2020
27223. “The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.” ― Mark Twain, On Masturbation November 20, 2020
27222. “The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27221. “Behold, the fool saith, “Put not all thine eggs in the one basket” – which is but a matter of saying, “Scatter your money and your attention”; but the wise man saith, “Pull all your eggs in the one basket and – WATCH THAT BASKET.” – Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar” ― Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson November 20, 2020
27220. “They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer November 20, 2020
27219. “But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huck Finn November 20, 2020
27217. “Don’t you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27216. “To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27215. “Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27214. “Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one… that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27213. “A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, “Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children’s alone,” and she took wing and went off to see about it — which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer November 20, 2020
27212. “The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” ― Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson and Other Tales November 20, 2020
27211. “he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign.” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer November 20, 2020
27210. “Having faith is believing in something you just know ain’t true.” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn November 20, 2020
27209. “There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.” ― Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson November 20, 2020
27208. “How empty is theory in the presence of fact!” ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court November 20, 2020
27207. “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn November 20, 2020
27206. “A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.” ― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper November 20, 2020
27205. “What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is lead in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, and every day, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, (which are but the mute articulation of his feelings,) not those other things are his history. His acts and his words are merely the visible thin crust of his world, with its scattered snow summits and its vacant wastes of water-and they are so trifling a part of his bulk! a mere skin enveloping it. The mass of him is hidden-it and its volcanic fires that toss and boil, and never rest, night nor day. These are his life, and they are not written, and cannot be written.” ― Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27204. “Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27203. “But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.” ― Mark Twain (Letters From the Earth) November 20, 2020
27202. “there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27201. “Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27200. “People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.” ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court November 20, 2020
27199. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27198. “Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution–these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. – “The Chronicle of Young Satan,” Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts” ― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts November 20, 2020
27197. “It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one…that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27205. “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27204. “Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene” ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer November 20, 2020
27203. “A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27202. “There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020
27201. “Don’t go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.” ― Mark Twain November 20, 2020