Spruch-Suche

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderful responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

- Maggie Scarf

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

- Sydney J. Harris

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.

- Charles Heiser

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.

- Rose G. Kingsley

Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.

- Mirabel Osler

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.

- Clara Winston

By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

- JULIAN HUXLEY

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you're a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

- James G. Sinclair

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

- W. M. Taylor