cool quotes

And when the woman saw that the tree wasgood for food, and that it waspleasanttothe eyes,and atreetobe desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them bothwere opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the L God walking inthegarden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the L God amongst the trees of the garden.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDGenesis 3:6^8. In the GenevaBible of1560, the word'aprons'was rendered'breeches', and the versionwas therefore known as the Breeches Bible.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

'I know of no joy,'she airily began,'greater than a cool white dress after the sweetness of confession.'

- (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald Firbank
  Valmouth, ch.4.

'A chilli,'said Rebecca, gasping,'Oh, yes!' She thought a chilli wassomething cool, asitsname imported, and was served with some.'How fresh and green they look,'she said, and put one into her mouth. It was hotter than the curry; flesh and blood could bear it no longer. She laid down her fork.'Water, for Heaven's sake, water!'she cried.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^8  Vanity Fair, ch.3

Cool is Hot.

-WashingtonTimes
  Headline, 9 May, on Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis's low-key campaign for Democratic presidential nomination.

Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowlyand surely drew their plans against us.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  TheWar of theWorlds, bk.1, ch.1.