quotes on pictures

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871



The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ~John Ruskin



Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ~John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957



God touched our hearts so deep inside, our special blessing multiplied. ~Author Unknown



Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs



I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~Andre Breton, "Manifesto of Surrealism," 1924



Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. ~James Bailey



A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. ~Tim Cahill



What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860



Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917



Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~Douglas Adams



If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw



This coffee tastes like mud! Well, it was ground this morning. ~Old Vaudeville joke



The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra. ~Cliff Raven



Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles



We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman



Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston