Moon proverbs

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◆ Conspiracy theorists like to claim NASA's moon landing was faked. Well of course it was! But the biggest conspiracy of all is the Columbus landed in the new world in the late 15th century. There is no new world. It simply doesn't exist. And Amerigo Vespucci? He was a character out of Walt Disney's diary.?

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

- Gustave Flaubert98

◆ With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

- Joseph Campbell98

◆ Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!

- Olive Higgins Prouty98

◆ What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.

- Terry Pratchett98

◆ The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

- Ernest Hemingway98

◆ We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.

- Arthur Machen98

◆ It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.

- Pat Conroy98

◆ Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

- Thornton Wilder98

◆ The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

- Shan Sa98

◆ It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

- Galileo Galilei98

◆ To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy.

- C. JoyBell C.98

◆ The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.

- Elizabeth Coatsworth98

◆ Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?

- Roman Payne98

◆ Somewhere I'd heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons.

- Roman Payne98