There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort. — W. Somerset Maugham
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. — Georg Brandes
It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better. — Franny Billingsley
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. — Alice Walker
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees. — Yip Harburg
One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic. — Lee Trevino
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself. — Pippa Middleton
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand. — Bar Refaeli
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. — Rupert Brooke
It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch. — Karlie Kloss
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. — Bobby Flay
Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito. — Sherman Alexie
Short Picnic Quotes
You bring your own weather to the picnic. — Harlan Coben
Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic." — Gretchen Rubin
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics? — Marie Dressler
The examined life is no picnic. — Robert Fulghum
Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic. — Jane Wagner
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? — Tom Barrett
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — W. H. Auden
The Dionysian is no picnic. — Camille Paglia
Life is a picnic on a precipice. — W. H. Auden
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. — Anais Nin
Picnic Image Quotes
Family Picnic Quotes
The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner. Big family gatherings, and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I’m doing good. — Kate Winslet
A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions. — Karen Russell
The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life. — Jim Fowler
My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit. — Kwame Kilpatrick
I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies. — D. A. Pennebaker
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish. — Chogyam Trungpa
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. — Bill Vaughan
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. — Tom Stoppard
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all. — Andy Warhol
If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them. — Paul Orfalea
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — Herman Melville
I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you. — Don Henley
Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim. — Barbara Ascher
Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there! — Minnie Pearl
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on. — P. D. James
[The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling. — Uday Hussein
Now everyday ain't gonna be no picnic
Love ain't no walk in the park
All you can do is make the best of it now
Can't be afraid of the dark
Just know that you're not in this thing alone
There's always a place in me that you can call home. — Cheryl Cole
Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things. — Dick Butkus
Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures, others that their boss had it in for them, and others yet that they were sure their career ended because of a stupid faux pas they made at the company picnic. — Harvey Mackay
When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome. — Charles A. Murray
Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic. — Conan O'Brien
The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV. — Kim Kardashian
We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children. — Karen Armstrong
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. — Elizabeth Bowen
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic. — Deborah Kara Unger
Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons. — Peter Sagal
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. — Cyril Connolly
I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. — Roy Lichtenstein
The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid. — Gerald Stern
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. — Vanessa Hudgens
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. — Paul Hogan
1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either. — Martin Popoff
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