Garden Quotes - page 5

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool. (Isaac Leib Peretz)
I would love this place to be my garden. View quote
Thierry Henry
A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples And grow a fair amount of nettles. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [pointing] keeps his garden He [pointing] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king. View quote
Peter Weiss
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers- Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And joy for weary hours. View quote
Mary Howitt
Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
[The Leesburg Garden Club is a] nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves. View quote
Lyndon LaRouche
No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it. View quote
Alfred Austin
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. (Eric Morecambe)
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me. View quote
James Branch Cabell
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. View quote
Mark Twain
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher. View quote
R. S. Thomas
Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our sin-bearer; Jesus the giver of eternal life; Jesus the keeper of our undying souls; Jesus the hearer of our prayers; Jesus the chastener who can turn crosses into crowns; and Jesus the wonder-worker who changes us into eternal likeness unto Himself! These flowers will keep sweet till heaven dawns. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
I go forth to seek - To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, "People: They're kinda like flowers and it's been a privilege walking in your garden." View quote
Robin Williams
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. View quote
Voltaire
Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden. That apparition, sole of men, he saw. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again "I know that that's a tree", pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: "This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy." View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it. View quote
Josh Billings
What is the spiritual battle? Well, the soul is a garden divided into two parts. On one half are planted thorny bushes, and on the other half flowers. We also have a water pump with two taps and two channels. The one guides the water to the thorns and the other to the flowers. I always have the choice to open one or the other tap. I leave the thorns without water and they dry up, I water the flowers and they blossom. View quote
Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia