To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job.

Once a minute passes it can never be reclaimed.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

Has every oyster a different taste?

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

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