Tomorrow at seven o'clock a strange phenomenon will occur: the earth is going to sit on the moon. This has also been written about by the noted English chemist Wellington. I confess, I felt troubled at heart when I pictured to myself the extraordinary delicacy and fragility of the moon. For the moon is usually made in Hamburg, and made quite poorly. I'm surprised England doesn't pay attention to this. It's made by a lame cooper, and one can see that the fool understands nothing about the moon. He used tarred rope and a quantity of cheap olive oil, and that's why there's a terrible stench all over the earth, so that you have to hold your nose. And that's why the moon itself is such a delicate sphere that people can't live on it, and now only noses live there. And for the same reason, we can't see our own noses, for they're all in the moon. Nikolai Gogol
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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E.e. Cummings
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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William Shakespeare
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
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Neil Armstrong
In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.
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Amit Kalantri
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been...
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Bertrand Russell
More Quotes By Nikolai Gogol
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of...
You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
