In a Rose Garden

» And vainly there foregathered,

Shall we regret the sun?
The rose of love, ungathered?

The bay, we have not won?

Ah, child! the world’s dark marges

May lead to Nevermore,
The stately funeral barges

Sail for an unknown shore,
And love we vow to-morrow,

And pride we serve to-day:
What-if they both should borrow

Sad hues of yesterday?

Our pride! Ah, should we miss it,

Or will it serve at last?
Our anger, if we kiss it,

Is like a sorrow past.
While roses deck the garden,

While yet the sun is high,
Doff sorry pride for pardon,

Or ever love go by.

Ernest Dowson [1867-1900]

Scholars have long known that bass fishing eventually turns men into philosophers.  Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher’s salary.

~Patrick F. McManus

“Meticulous planning will enable everything a man/woman does to appear spontaneous.”
~Mark Caine

“There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.”

~ Mark Caine

“It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master’s fame. “

~ Orison Swett Marden

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

Les Brown
Speaker and Author

“Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

Leonardo da Vinci
Scientist, Inventor, Artist

“The beginning of a matter is the most important.”

~ Plato