Mushrooms Quotes

• Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Antiques

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

  Bill Ballance

  Falling In Love, Real, Love Is

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• Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Advice, Kind, Prove

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• I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

  John Ford

  Heaven, Dew, Now And Then

  'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 1, sc. 3

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• Why did the mushroom go to the party?
  Because he's a fungi!

  Louis Tomlinson

  Party, Fungi

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• Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

  Paul Stamets

  Nature, Health, Unique

  Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

  John Cage

  Rain, Meals

  John Cage (2010). “A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings”, p.60, Wesleyan University Press

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• The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Umbrella, Increase

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• I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

  Jo Walton

  Thinking, Fairy, Spots

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.37, Macmillan

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• You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.

  Christian Bale

  Order, Degrees, Treats

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

  Donal Henahan

  Death, Dying, Experts

  "John Cage, Elfin Enigma, at 64" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 1976.

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• Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

  Shirley Conran

  Life, Stuff, Too Short

  Superwoman epigraph (1975)

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• Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Brain, Growth, Enhancement

  "Place Mushrooms in Sunlight to Get Your Vitamin D: Part One" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2012.

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• When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

  Rick Warren

  Struggle, Years, Soul

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Air, Resilience, Different

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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• Don't eat a mushroom stem and see colors, eat the whole bag and see GOD

  Doug Stanhope

  Color, Bags, Stem

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• If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you.

  Scott Adams

  Please, Ifs

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• You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men

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• Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

  Tom Colicchio

  Fancy, Dirt, Eating

  "The Hot Seat: Tom Colicchio". Interview with Billie Cohen, www.timeout.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

  George Polya

  Science, Discovery, Growth

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

  A. R. Ammons

  Answers

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• Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.

  William George Jordan

  Philosophy, Night, Growth

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.12, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Psilocybin, Psychedelic

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• But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Dine In, One Day, Next

  Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.527, e-artnow

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• I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Pride

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