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“A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.”

Ifs Looks Different Sleep Wife Week Bed Ten Garden Ministers Necks Labour Fence Neighbour

Author:Clement Attlee

“Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.”

Children Evil House Moral Principles Fields Garden Window Manners Clothings Roof Fence Drunkenness Barns

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.”

Lasts Beautiful Moving Five Week Minutes Flower Sitting Garden Rose Breathe Fence Five Minutes

Book:Letters of Celia Thaxter

Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter

“I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.”

States Garden Rivers Charm Farms Fence Spiders Orchard Blossoming Ridges Connecticut Midges

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.”

Years Lying Animal Behinds Taught Garden Cat Fence Benches Gnome Azaleas

Book:Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

Source: Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

“But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.”

Young Behavior Commitment Garden Harmony Ethical Fence Goats Ethical Behavior

Book:Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.”

“If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.”

Ifs Men Looks Soul Would Be Lost Left Sides Path Middle Garden Lays Rounds Corners Neighbor Originality Fence Lawns

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?”

“One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.”

Men World Running Garden Constant Evening Vegetables Fence Patches Variables

Book:Condolences of the season: selected poems

Source: Condolences of the season: selected poems