Famous quotes containing the words leisure, village, lake and/or park:
“How has he the leisure to be sick
In such a jostling time?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“When the enterprising burglar isnt burgling,
When the cut-throat isnt occupied in crime,
He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling,
And listen to the merry village chime.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)
“The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,”
—Sara Teasdale (18841933)
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