“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.” IfsLooksDifferentSleepWifeWeekBedTenGardenMinistersNecksLabourFenceNeighbour Author:Clement Attlee
“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.” LastsBeautifulMovingFiveWeekMinutesFlowerSittingGardenRoseBreatheFenceFive Minutes Book:Letters of Celia Thaxter Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter
“If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.” IfsShouldEndsHumorFunnyWaterWeekDrinkGardenScientistAssBottles Author:Lewis Black
“There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.” LoveLittlesSoulSpiritualityWeekWorshipGardenPlantCornersMy SoulReverenceGardening Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“The Olive Garden is bringing back its 'Pasta Pass,' which lets you eat as much pasta as you want for seven weeks. In a related story, Chris Christie just suspended his campaign.” WantStoriesWeekGardenSevenCampaignsRelatedSuspendedPastaOlivesChristieOlive Garden Author:Conan O'Brien
“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.” WorldShouldMatterWholeUsedJesusChurchPracticeGrowingAirTreeWeekEffectsBirdGardenShould HaveSeedsKingdomsMeatSaltSmallestNestsContagiousSprinklesYeastSlabs Author:Philip Yancey
“Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I couldn't do anything else and I shouldn't plan to do anything that night or the next day. There were times when I was writing something difficult for days or weeks and when I'd finish, I would get up and go out of my shed into the garden and be sick. I had terrible migraines.” FeelsWritingSometimesNightNextDifficultChancePlansWeekTerribleGardenSickGratefulGet UpShedNext DayMigraine Author:Damian Barr
“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.” MenWorldMindHeartSeemsRomanceNextRealizingJusticeWifeWeekGeniusVictorySolitudeGardenTransformationDressesDefeatForgottenDinnerEvery ManPracticalsImpressionRevelationsSanityPassagesNew WorldHouseholdRidiculeNext WeekTrue Romance Book:Essays, lectures and orations Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.” MenWantMatterBigsEarthWishGoalResultsSecretGrowingWeekFlowerGainsFairsGardenRoseHere And ThereReposeFlowers Growing Author:Edgar Guest
“I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.” EarthFunnyLastsThreeNatureWeekRocksGardenDiedGardening Author:Richard K. Diran