Garden of The Gods

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

    Softly sweet in Lydian measures
    Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.
    ‘War’, he sung, ‘is toil and trouble;
    Honour but an empty bubble.
    Never ending, still beginning,
    Fighting still, and still destroying;
    If the world be worth thy winning,
    Think, O think it worth enjoying.
    Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
    Take the good the Gods provide thee.’
    John Dryden (1631–1700)

    Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
    Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 4:16.

    All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and ... you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
    Anita Brookner (b. 1938)