Rosewarne Garden Society - Details of meetings with plant sales, gardening tips and a diary of planned trips and visits.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Recreation and Sports If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Recreation and Sports The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Recreation and Sports
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Recreation and Sports Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Recreation and Sports Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Recreation and Sports You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Recreation and Sports When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Recreation and Sports
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Recreation and Sports My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Recreation and Sports
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Recreation and Sports
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Recreation and Sports "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Recreation and Sports
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Recreation and Sports Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
