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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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"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
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give." »Anthony Norvell
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake." »William Blake
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." »Richard Burton
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"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables)" »Victor Hugo
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"friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." »Muhammad Ali
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"friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything." »Mohammad Ali, Newspaper, Daily Herald
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"What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." »Greek proverb
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson
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"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." »Martin Luther
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." »Phillip Chesterfield
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"By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top." »Saskya Pandita
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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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