Garden of The Gods

Famous quotes containing the words garden of, garden and/or gods:

    “we know our end
    A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rĂ´le with the promise of rewards—material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the Garden of Eden.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

    “Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)