32 Quotes by W. H. Davies

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.

I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.

I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.