John Evelyn Quotes

#1. Here we supped ... , having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

John Evelyn

#2. A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

John Evelyn

#3. Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

John Evelyn

#4. Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Evelyn

#5. He led her to the bedroom, he took off her clothes, without a word, in the manner of an owner undressing a person whose consent is not required. He clasped the pendant on her shoulders. She stood naked, the stone between her breasts, like a sparkling drop of blood.

Ayn Rand

#6. Explore everything; keep the best

John Evelyn

#7. By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties ... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

John Evelyn

#8. I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

John Evelyn

#9. A boy should fit into your life-not become it. High school is when you start to define yourself. Don't define yourself as the girl who has a boyfriemd and nothing else.

Miranda Kenneally

#10. There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. You can Live in your Cave or Dance to your Grave.-RVM

R.v.m.

#12. If they would have put positive opportunities in front of me to make $1000 a week, I would have done it. But they didn't. They put $1000 in front of me and an illegal way to make it. And they expect me not to do it because they say it's wrong.

Snoop Dogg

#13. As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.

John Evelyn

#14. Google has long been a leftist company.

Ben Shapiro

#15. I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

Elaine Paige

#16. Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions to find words.

Luke Lively

#17. My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me ... I don't fight the universe.

Ziggy Marley

#18. I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

Eric Bana

#19. The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits ...

John Evelyn

#20. Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

John Evelyn

#21. Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

John Evelyn

#22. I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

John Evelyn

#23. Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

John Le Carre

#24. This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

John Evelyn

#25. The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

Eugene McCarthy

#26. You are soul food for my ravenous mind.

N.R. Hart

#27. We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.

John Evelyn