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Love is a fair garden, and marriage a field of nettles. - Finnish Proverb

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. - Mitch Hedberg

The fuchsia is the world's most carefully spelled flower. - Jimmy Barnes

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - Og Mandino

Plant the seed of meditation and reap the fruit of peace of mind. - Unknown

A person of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. - Unknown

A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes. - Greek Proverb

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. - Richard B. Sheridan

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. - George Bernard Shaw

Natural abilities are like natural plants: to grow, they need pruning. - Red Auerbach

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. - Frances H Burnett

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. - Chinese Proverb

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. - St. Basil of Caesarea

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. - Lord Chesterfield

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. - Oscar Wilde

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. - G K Chesterton

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. - Thomas Merton

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. - Michelle Dockery

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. - Doug Larson

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. - Bill Meyer

Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. - Jose L Borges

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant. - Orville Redenbacher

All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes. - Steven Wright

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. - Earl Nightingale

Plant a radish, get a radish - never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables; you know what they're about. - Tom Jones

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world. - John T Bonner

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. - Confucius

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. - Leonora Carrington

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. - Jacques Cousteau

There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden. - Nicholas Carr

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. - Annie Besant

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. - Richard M Nixon

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. - Michael Pollan