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Quotes About Venus

So astonishing was his physique that another man unabashedly described young Abraham Lincoln as "a cross between Venus and
~ Bill O'Reilly
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
~ Martin Amis
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.
~ Ovid
Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.
~ Allen Tate
Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
~ Bill Nye
We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
~ Edmund Spenser
In Valentine's Day or in any other day, the brightest star is not Venus or Jupiter but the very love in people's heart!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The transit of Venus of 1769 finally allowed us to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun: 149.59 million kilometres. A
~ Bill Bryson
transits of Venus, as they are known, are an irregular occurrence. They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more
~ Bill Bryson
Stellar Showboat Maclolm Jameson Special Investigator Billy Neville was annoyed, and for more reasons than one. He had just done a tedious year in the jungles of Venus stamping out the gooroo racket and then, on his way home to a well-deserved leave and rest, had been
~ Frank Belknap Long
Song " I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life mud clambers up the trellis of my nerves must lovers of Eros end up with Venus muss es sein? es muss nicht sein, I tell you how I hate disease, it's like worrying that comes true and it simply must not be able to happen in a world where you are possible my love nothing can go wrong for us, tell me
~ Frank O'Hara
Eôsphoros, ' ????????' (pronunciation: eh-aw-s- fOR-aw s) is the Greek name for the Latin Lucifer, 'Dawn Bringer'; the planet Venus was known by this name along with Hesperos '???????', known in Latin as Vesperus, 'Evening Star'.
~ Michael W. Ford
Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love.
~ Michel de Montaigne
As a result of parallax, many of the UFOs spotted trailing after our cars are actually sightings of the planet Venus.)
~ Michio Kaku
Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move
~ Ovid
Since much of the ocean floor remains unexplored (except perhaps for still-classified data acquired by the U.S. and Soviet navies), we may know more about the surface topography of Venus than about any other planet, Earth included.
~ Carl Sagan
Observation: there was absolutely nothing to see on Venus. Conclusion: it must be covered with life.
~ Carl Sagan
Venus, it turns out, is broiling hot. There are no swamps, no oil fields, no seltzer oceans. With insufficient data, it is easy to go wrong.
~ Carl Sagan
Then thus incensed, the Paphian queen replies: Obey the power from whom thy glories rise: Should Venus leave thee, every charm must fly, Fade from thy cheek, and languish in thy eye. Cease to provoke me, lest I make thee more The world's aversion, than their love before; Now the bright prize for which mankind engage, Than, the sad victim, of the public rage. At this, the fairest of her sex obey'd, And
~ Homer
The whole scene, the empty beach, the green and blue sea, the naked girl with the strands of fair hair, reminded Bond of something. He searched his mind. Yes, she was Botticelli's Venus, seen from behind.
~ Ian Fleming
In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.
~ Edmund Spenser