Still occasionally mistaking brightness for warmth. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse Category: Weather
The thunderhead collects out over the distant plain giving a show of what is to come. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife Category: Weather
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift Category: Weather
How happy is the sailors life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. – Isaac Bickerstaffe Category: Military, the
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. – Francis Bacon Category: Envy / Jealousy
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. – Nancy Astor Category: Education