John Evelyn Quotes
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
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.
A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
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.
Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.
