So that a paradise, among them seems to have been a large space of ground adorned and beautified with all sorts of trees, both of fruits and of forest, either found there before it was enclosed, or planted after either cultivated like gardens, for shades and for walks, with fountains or streams, and all sorts of plants usual in the climate, and pleasant to the eye, the smell, or the taste or else employed like our parks, for enclosure and harbor of all sorts of wild beasts, as well, as for the pleasure of riding and walking and so they were of more or less extent, and of different entertainment, according to the several humors of the Princes that ordered and enclosed them.
Quotes about humors (6 Quotes)
Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
I think we were kind of aggravated at the way bands only write titles that will fit inside DJs' mouths perfectly. We were kind of annoyed with that. At the same time, I think we always kind of want to give people something that they won't expect so maybe on the next record, it won't be like that. Maybe it'll be 'Track One,' 'Track Two,' 'Track Three.' That's what our humor's like and how we think as people.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors