Garden-word-proverbs

1. He who sows brambles must not go barefoot.
2. If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.
3. One flower makes no garland.
4. No rose without a thorn.
5. Patience is a flower that grows not in every one's garden.
6. Remove an old tree and it will wither.
7. Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
8. Such as the tree is, such is the fruit.
9. The proudest nettle grows on a midden.
10. While the grass grows, the cow starves.
11. A rotten apple injures its companions.
12. A tree is known by its fruit.
13. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
14. When the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

These are some of the proverbs that I found in an old book of my g-g-father (1891)- Old English Proverbs. Except the last one which is an African proverb.

The Fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
Bloom where you are planted.
Plant kindness, gather love.
Kind hearts are the garden,Kind thoughts are the roots,Kind words are the blossoms,Kind deeds are the fruit.
The garden is the mirror of the heart.
Friends are flowers in the garden of life.
Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.
Life without friends is like a garden without flowers.
A rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses.
Hearts that love are always in bloom.
The seed is hope, the flower is joy.

...and lots more quotes are here: http://davesgarden.com/gq/

Thanks Dinu and Cala, I did wonder about the elephant LOL

Here's a few I like:

Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses.

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.
(Janet Kilburn Phillips)

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do.
(Slim Acres)

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
(Francis Bacon)

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
(Francis Bacon)

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
(Rudyard Kipling)

All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
(George Meredith)

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

When gardening I have one gift,
you won't find in manuals.
I know it's strange,
but I can change,
perennials into annuals

Live life as if you will live for just one day,
Garden as if you shall garden for a thousand years.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever
(John Keats)

I particularly like the one about the elephants....

I'd say they're all nice but the elephant one is different!

go_vols, just today, I had the time to browse the extras section and I loved those many quotes. Do you find any of these proverbs above worth adding there? I had also posted a few quotes in a couple of my other posts.

Dinu, glad you liked them. I added some of the proverbs you submitted (above.) Some of yours were already in there and many of Baa's were in there, too (great minds think alike, maybe?)

So keep watching the daily newsletter for some of these to be the "quote of the day" one of these days ;0)