Activity Quote by Lola Montez

Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down…

— Lola Montez

Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success…

— Hilary McKay

“Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girls It is…

— M.F. Moonzajer

The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out…

— Virginia Woolf

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent…

— Henry James

“One great pleasure they enjoyed together was bathing. The Homestead possessed a little cove of its own under the rocks, where there was a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental…

— Lynne Withey

“Galbraith, tellingly, drew a line between ‘simple modes of enjoyment’ (he included here sport, food and houses as well as cars and sex) and…

— Frank Trentmann

“As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of…

— john knowles

“I remember a period in late adolescence when my mind would make itself drunk with images of adventurousness. This is how it will be…

— Julian Barnes

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and…

— Ovid

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

— Henry James