Quotes:

There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
        —the Water Rat, talking to Mole, The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
        —Jonathan Swift, 1738

Everyone that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
        —Matt. 7:26-27

Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads.
        —Henry David Thoreau

Common sense is not so common.
        —Voltaire, 1765

You have a good heart and that’s the most important thing in the world.
        —Bonnie Waitzkin, to her son Josh, in the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

If you are not an environmentalist, you are either selfish or ignorant.
        —Andwar Bundini, M.D., physician and philosopher