Quotes of Cultivation - somelinesforyou

“ No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ”

- Booker T. Washington

“ The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ”

- Pope John XXIII

“ Where grows? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. ”

- Marcus Manilius

“ A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. ”

- Thomas Tusser

“ We need a comprehensive, ambitious agreement to cut barriers to trade in the three key areas: agriculture, non-agricultural market access, and services. ”

- Tony Blair

“ Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped. ”

- Rebecca West

“ Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. ”

- G. Macdonald

“ A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. ”

- Cicero

“ If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. ”

- Xenophon

“ Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ”

- James Baldwin

“ No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. ”

- Unknown

“ Raising money takes dogged persistence, bullheadedness, salesmanship, year-round cultivation, board support and encouragement, a plan, an attainable goal, and lots of excitement. ”

- Brian O’Connell

“ The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms. ”

- Marques De Pombal

“ Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft

“ As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. ”

- Seneca

“ It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. ”

- Robert G. Menzies

“ Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”

- Orson Scott Card

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”

- William Gaddis
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