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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

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

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

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? - George Carlin

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

When my wife asked me to start a garden the first thing I dug up was an excuse. - Henny Youngman

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

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees. - George Eliot

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

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

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. - A. Whitney Brown

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a plant. Therefore, chocolate counts as salad. The End. - Unknown

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

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything. - Donald Trump

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

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

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

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

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

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

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. - Ogden Nash

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie

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