MOUNTAINS

Related Subjects: Hills, Nature

1. They came to the Delectable Mountains.—BUNYAN, The Pilgrim's Progress

2. Mountains are good to look upon
   But do not look too long.
   They are made of granite. They will break your heart.—GRACE CONKLING, Mountains
   

3. On every mountain height is rest.—GOETHE, Ein Gleiches
   

4. 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 it is with great men.—A. W. & J. C. HARE, Guesses at Truth
   

5. Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.—HAWTHORNE, Sketches from Memory
   

6. They were setting
   Ossa upon Olympus, and upon
   Steep Ossa leafy Pelius.—HOMER, Odyssey
   

7. A mountain and a river are good neighbours.—Proverb
   

8. If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, let Mahomet go to the
   mountain.—Proverb
   

9. I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.—RABELAIS
   

10. Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.—RUSKIN, True and Beautiful
    

11. Who digs hills because they do aspire,
    Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.—SHAKESPEARE, Pericles