A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.
Richard Barnfield

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
Norman Parkinson

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.
Carole Lombard

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning Hamilton

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
James Lovelock

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.
Leonard Boswell

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
Wyndham Lewis

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown