Robert Benchley Quotes

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China?

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

San Anita is a beautiful track. It's not too far from my house in L.A., and it's a beautiful place to go and watch the horses run.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

I'm not a gardener. I wish I was.

My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.

I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don't even feel like you're exercising. You're having fun, and you're being healthy at the same time.

I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.

I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed so many image models that some people have given up trying to keep track of me. But others have only one or two ways of doing things and are successful with that.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet