Men meet; mountains, never. [ Lewis Cass ]
Promising mountains of gold. [ Ter ]
On the mountains is freedom. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The purple heath and golden broom
On moory mountains catch the gale.
O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume.
The violet in the vale. [ Montgomery ]
Try and Trust will move mountains. [ Proverb ]
Friends may meet, but mountains never. [ Proverb ]
The mountains have brought forth a mouse. [ Proverb ]
Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one. [ William Cowper ]
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow. [ Byron ]
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains - Beautiful!
I linger yet with nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learned the language of another world. [ Byron ]
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief. [ Shelley ]
Great souls attract sorrow as mountains do storms. [ Richter ]
Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
These are not done by jostling in the street. [ Wm. Blake ]
Night wanes; the vapors round the mountains curled
Melt into morn, and light awakes the world. [ Byron ]
In the morning mountains, in the evening fountains. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tranquillity. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages. [ Victor Hugo ]
And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. [ Virgil ]
Who hath no haste in his business, mountains to him seem valleys. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. [ Balthasar Gracian ]
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. [ Joseph Roux ]
See the mountains kiss high heavens, and the waves clasp one another. [ Shelley ]
Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature. [ William Hewitt ]
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings! [ Bible ]
Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained. [ Ruskin ]
Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around. [ Jean Paul ]
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, end like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. [ Colton ]
Mountains never shake hands.
Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
The lofty pine is oftenest agitated by the winds - high towers rush to the earth with a heavier fall - and the lightning most frequently strikes the highest mountains. [ Horace ]
Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. [ Hare ]
Neptune has raised up his turbulent plains; the sea falls and leaps upon the trembling shore. She remounts, groans, and with redoubled blows makes the abyss and the shaken mountains resound. [ St. Lambert ]
The common cause of waves is the friction of the wind upon the surface of the water; little ridges or elevations first appear, which by continuance of the force gradually increase until they become the rolling mountains seen where the wind sweeps over a great extent of water. [ F. Marryatt ]
Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. [ Emerson ]
Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]
Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. [ Channing ]
There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]