"Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden."

-- Mirabel Osler

#Garden Quotes #Benches Quotes #Taste Quotes

“It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.”

Source : "Ice-cream icon Jerry Greenfield shares his top tips for business startups". Interview with Matthew Jenkin, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.
“Nothing in my life is a coincidence.”
“I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so we made our own. That is feminism to me.”
“The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.8614, Delphi Classics
“Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.164
“I loved psychology and I loved history.”
“I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.”
“The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.”

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