Garden Delights Quotes

#1. Love is all that counts in this crazy, mixed-up world ...

Sophie Kinsella

#2. What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

William Lawson

#3. I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Boredom is easy. Which is why sadness hides there so readily. But don't be fooled for long. Dying of boredom. There's reason behind that idiom. It'll kill you sure enough.

Adam Haslett

#5. If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.

Simon Bird

#6. The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

Garth Brooks

#7. Marriage is a wonderful thing, the wonder of wonders. It is a veritable garden of delights, a perennial fountain of the most exquisite sweetness, happiness, a land of enchantment. The riches and honors of the world are nothing in comparison with it.

John Jaques

#8. Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine.

Steven Magee

#9. I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life ... It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

Karel Capek

#11. The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#12. I am a garden of earthly delights.
I am the apple you would fall for a thousand times.

Diane Lockward

#13. I hate war ... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#14. Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Portis

#15. Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.

Jeff Goodell

#16. My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

Rumi

#17. Sometimes an owl is just an owl.

Mark Frost

#18. The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

Carolina Herrera

#19. I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

Taylor Dayne

#20. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

George William Curtis

#21. Things can get good again. Even things like a marriage.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#22. Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#23. There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Laurence J. Peter

#24. Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.

Barbara Rosenblat

#25. Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

Frank Stronach

#26. Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Hermann Hesse

#27. Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden ... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.

Julie Moir Messervy

#28. Hot, salty, crunchy, and portable, the previously awful-sounding collection of greasy delights can become a Garden of Eden of heart-clogging goodness when you're in a drunken stupor, hungering for fried snacks. At that precise moment, nothing could taste better.

Anthony Bourdain