friendship poems for valentines day

My garden is my favorite teacher. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



Internet users are flocking to the Vatican's new website (so they say). It turns out though, that most visitors are there to confess after visiting the Cindy Crawford site. Now, the faithful don't have to kiss the Pope's ring - you just double click on it. ~Author Unknown



The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato



By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging. ~Jesse Shera, 1977



Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973



Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. ~William Shakespeare, Henry VI



My body is here, but my mind has already teed off. ~Author Unknown



If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ~Tommy Bolt



Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ~G.B. Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists," 1898



Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce



To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com



The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. ~Will Rogers



Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures - squirrels, fairies and angels. ~Author Unknown



The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley



I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. ~Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise



Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. ~Ellen Glasgow



An environment where people have to think brings with it wisdom, and this wisdom brings with it kaizen continuous improvement. ~Teruyuki Minoura