Bench Quotes

No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

I write our names on the page.What of it, if the paper will be burned?I write our names in the sand.What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?I write our names on trees that will be cutand benches that will be painted,but what of it?I will keep on writing our namesbecause in this world of ephemera, You and I are the only constant.

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.