Amusement Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu Download Open image “Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.” — Mary Wortley Montagu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amusement Books Gardening Next Reading
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes. — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic… — Barbara Damrosch Copy Share Image
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“None strive to know their proper merit But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit And lose the praise that is their due When they've the… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
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