Patience is a plant that does not grow in everyone’s garden.
—Italian Proverb
Teach your son in the front garden and your wife on the pillow.
—Chinese Proverb
If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004) American Psychiatrist
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
—English Proverb
To one who knows no better, a small garden is a forest.
—African Proverb
A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
The herb patience does not grow in every man’s garden.
—Danish Proverb
A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer’s garden.
—Italian Proverb
The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship under sail, and a woman after the birth of a child.
—Irish Proverb
Criticism: that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-born British Novelist
The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.
—Turkish Proverb
A good garden may have some weeds.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.
—Spanish Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
—Arabic Proverb
A garden without a fence is like a dog without a tail.
—Moroccan Proverb
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed—That can make life a garden.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The flowers in your garden don’t smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer.
—Chinese Proverb
If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own.
—Russian Proverb
All gardeners know better than other gardeners.
—Chinese Proverb
Garden flowers larger, field flowers stronger.
—Chinese Proverb
The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.
—U.S. Proverb
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
—African Proverb
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
—Chinese Proverb
Love is a garden full of flowers and marriage is a field of stinging nettles.
—Finnish Proverb
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
—Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker
In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation.
—Russian Proverb
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