Maria Edgeworth quotes and words of wisdom

"I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Well! some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property."
Found in the topic Land.

"Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business."
Found in the topic Business.

Interesting Quotes

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Bohr - Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.A. A. Milne - English juvenile author (1882 - 1956)