A Quote by Anne Bosworth Greene

November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

Anne Bosworth Greene

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Anne Bosworth Greene
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Born: 1877

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

Zhuangzi

Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.

Pliny the Elder

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

Octave Chanute

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill

Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.

Barbara Tuchman

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton

The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

Michael Gruber

'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

Michael Gruber

The shaved head with which I returned to university in my second year was meant to give me a new air of mystery and menace. It did not.

Ivo Graham

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

Pierre Loti

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.

Walter Scott

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

Daniel J. Boorstin

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

Ian Bogost

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

Epictetus

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

Walter Savage Landor

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.

Henry David Thoreau

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