Sorry Tree

Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every man under his own fig tree. - Hebrew Saying

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Sorry, there is no STAR on the stage tonight! - Donald Trump

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Love means never having to say you're sorry. - Love Story

Alimony is always having to say you're sorry. - Philip Simborg

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. - John Rhys-Davies

Mrs. O'Leary's cow is sorry, but Cleveland burned anyway. - Archie Bunker

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

I felt sorry for myself because I had no hands until I met a man who had no chips. - Kent Andersson

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

The stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. - Haruki Murakami

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

The axe cannot boast of the tree it has cut down. It could do nothing but for the woodsman. He made it, he sharpened it, and he used it. - Samuel Brengel

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown