Garden Quote by William Shenstone

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

— Michel de Montaigne

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

— Roger Ebert

Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps…

— Marion Milner

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

— Jean Anouilh

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

— James Allen

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ...

— Tim Smit

“Men often, in endeavoring to gratify their own passions, seek what is injurious to them, reject what would be truly advantageous, and are deluded…

— Sozomen

“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have…

— W. Somerset Maugham

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

— James Boswell

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are…

— Elizabeth Aston

“Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a…

— James Allen