quotes

"We come from the earth.
We return to the earth.
And in between we garden."
- Author Unknown

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
- Cicero

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

- Rene Descartes

Let those who are in favour with their stars
Of public honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories once foil'd,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:
Then happy I, that love and am beloved
Where I may not remove nor be removed.

Sonnets Xxv: Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars - Poem by William Shakespeare

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
- Cicero

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
- Oscar Wilde

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
- Horace Mann

"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."
- Billy Graham

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."
- Bob Hope

"Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five."
- Paul Harvey

"Don't lose your temper; you have only got one."
- Oscar Wilde

"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
- Joseph Joubert

"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Conscience is a man's compass."
- Vincent van Gogh

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
- George Washington