Shade Quotes

• To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

  Jane Austen

  Nature, Flower, Perfect

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.85

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• Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.

  Michael Dolan

  Life, Beautiful, Different

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

  James Boswell

  Light, Should, Wells

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.23

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• Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.

  Brad Goreski

  My Future

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• When people throw shade, shine brighter!

  Frankie J. Grande

  People, Shining, Brighter

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• If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Success, Opportunity

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.50, Vintage

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• The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Color, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.23

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• A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

  Homer

  Shadow, Hunters, Hmmm

  "Odyssey". Poem by Homer, XI,

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• Throw a little shade when you need to.

  RuPaul

  Needs, Littles

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• She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

  Ray Davies

  Causes, Staring

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• Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

  Winfield Scott

  Men, Light, Wells

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• Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

  Lord Byron

  Power, Years, Mist

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,
  Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Hate, Sunshine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.205, Library of America

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• Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

  Robert Browning

  Mind, Height, Casts

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 3, l. 821

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Knowing, Tree, Meaning Of Life

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• Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

  Kim Kardashian

  Jealousy, Hater, Rain

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• We have been friends together
  In sunshine and in shade.

  Caroline Norton

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1853). “The Undying One: And Other Poems”, p.209

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• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Real Friends, Advice

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• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

  Sylvia Plath

  Famous Inspirational, Book, Skills

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• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Friendship, Happiness

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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• Never trust a man who can dance.

  E. L. James

  Men, Fifty, Never Trust

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