Thursday Thirteen 117: The Moon

From nursery rhymes to poetry, songs to classic literature, the moon has long been a popular literary subject. This week we celebrated the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's walk on the moon. In honor of such, here are thirteen quotes about the moon.


I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
~Albert Einstein

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
~Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
~Mark Twain

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
~ Henry Rollins

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
~Les Brown

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
~George Carlin

Don't tell me the sky is the limit, there are footprints on the moon!
~Unknown

The moon, like a flower / In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight / Sits and smiles on the night.
~William Blake

Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man."
~Jack Handy

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
~Richard H. Baker

Soon as the evening shades prevail, / The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth / Repeats the story of her birth.
~Joseph Addison

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
~Buddha

Bonus:
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.
~George Bernard Shaw


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