Famous quotes containing the words grove, nature and/or reserve:
“He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.”
—Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)
“Mutual repect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one’s own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)