Vitruvius Quotes

Things come suitable to the time.

Everything has a place and time.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Let all things be done decently and in good order.

I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

In season, all is good.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it. There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger. The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

Things well fitted abide.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.