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Quotes and Sayings About Picnics

• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
  — Alexander Smith

• Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
  — Alice Walker

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
  — Barry Eichengreen

• I’ve liked lots of people ’til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
  — Bess Truman

• If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he’d have had to bring a picnic lunch.
  — Bill Anderson

• 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

• As a diabetic, I’m a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
  — Elaine Stritch

• 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

• Never plan a picnic’ Father said. ‘Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.
  — Elizabeth Enright

• It’s the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it’s a forbidden thing, so much the better.
  — Franny Billingsley

• Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.
  — Gary Barlow

• Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
  — Georg Brandes

• Happiness: “You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic.”
  — Gretchen Rubin

• You bring your own weather to the picnic.
  — Harlan Coben

• I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it’s not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.
  — Ian Anderson

• Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.
  — Jane Wagner

• If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.
  — Jonathan Cainer

• I am a critic – as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
  — Joseph L. Mankiewicz

• How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.
  — Josh Lanyon

• I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.
  — Julian Grenfell

• A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.
  — Karen Russell

   

  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

• Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.
  — Kim Harrison

• They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck’s Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.
  — Larry Nelson

• If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
  — Marie Dressler

• 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

• I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
  — Phyllis Bottome

• I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.
  — Richard Brautigan

• The examined life is no picnic.
  — Robert Fulghum

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
— Sara Genn

Picnic Sayings and Quotes

• Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.George Brandes
  A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable state of mind.DeeDee Stovel
  Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.Jane Wagner
  The examined life is no picnic.Robert Fulghum
  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
  If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?Tom Barrett
  I’ve liked lots of people ’til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.Bess Truman
  There’s something so intimate about a picnic with your guy. And as the temperature begins to rise, eating outside becomes refreshing and romantic.Katie Lee
  My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.Jane Fitch
  People don’t want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.Jack Nicklaus
  There are few things so pleasant as a picnic lunch eaten in perfect comfort.W. Somerset Maugham
  Things taste better outdoors. And if it’s a forbidden thing, so much the better.Franny Billingsley
  Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.Arthur Conan Doyle
  Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.Alice Walker
  Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.Hudson Stuck
  You bring your own weather to the picnic.Harlan Coben
  One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.