| "When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo |
| "When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." »Kenneth Kaunda |
| "Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme" »Maitri Upanishads |
| "We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey." »Albert E. Cliffe |
| "He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the whole hive collapses." »Siddha Nagarjuna |
| "A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt |
| "If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman |
| "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport |
| "We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb |
| "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson |
| "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year." »Dixie Lee Ray |
| "The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream." »Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe |
| "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 |
| "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." »Dr. |
| "If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." »Chinese Proverb |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
