After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Quote by Kenneth Grahame

Topics: Holiday Quotes

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed,...

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed,...

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him,...

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him,...

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread,...

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread,...

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy,...

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy,...

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good,...

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good,...

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever...

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever...

It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the...

It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the...

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery,...

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery,...

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools...

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools...

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead...

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead...

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come,...

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come,...

There is nothing absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in...

There is nothing absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in...

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves,...

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves,...

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or...

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or...