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Comments (34)There must be something about this picture. One of my first questions to this forum was about my plans for this area. I got two or three responses. Looking back, I understand why my query did not generate many responses. Last year I posted this picture in a general thread about benches and perimeter gardens and generated a number of responses. Now once again this picture has prompted some responses. The privacy fence on the left belongs to my neighbor. My wife and I built the 4' fence with the primary "function" of containing our dog. The impact of fences on a garden space is a topic worthy of its own thread. I have learned to appreciate the fence for a number of reasons: it provides a level of continuity to my landscape, it provides a backdrop for plants, it gives a sense of enclosure, and it defines the area of my yard that I maintain..hostas on this side...poison ivy on that side. I struggled with trying to unite the right and left side of my back yard. The right side has several 50'+ trees with a mature Magnolia where the left side was a big void. I figured that what ever I did would not balance these areas out for the next 20 years. I have probably rambled on enough about my garden. Hopefully this house will soon be sold and I will have a few dollars to spend on my current landscape. The view here is not so picturesque. My challenge will be in transforming a lawn surrounded by too many deciduous trees planted in straight lines into an engaging landscape. Stay tuned. - Brent...See MoreEvery Bruggie Into The Pool! What????
Comments (25)Kathy, my pool developed cracks a couple of years ago so I emptied it. Just yesterday a guy from the county/city came by to see if there was any mosquito larvae in the pool so he could spray the water (there's about 4-5' accumulated from rain). I mentioned wanting to have the pool drilled (holes so the water won't accumulate) and then filled with dirt. He said it's illegal without first going through a lot of paperwork for approval. Long story short, we talked about empty pools popping up out of the ground, so it's best for me to keep the water in the pool to weigh it down. Since we pay for a monthly spraying during mosquito season with our house taxes, might as well use that service and keep the water in the pool. When a pool is empty, it can move upwards cracking the deck and then it will literally pop out of the ground and destroy whatever decking/cement is on top....See MoreDo you consider it an insult ?
Comments (38)Just depends on what part of my dad I take after. I don't know to many beauty queens. We take what we have and enhance it with makeup. Dads dumbo ears, giganto chin, no neck. Got to smile and be the best you can be. Then no one will care about the rest. I would say someone didn't know how to phrase the statement to come out complimentary for YOU. Kinda like the leftovers. Not very thoughtful but if you love your dad the way he is I'd say take it as a compliment. Sometimes we draw the short end of the stick, it could be worse though....See MoreQuotes 9 - 22 - 17
Comments (0)Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes British - Statesman September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773 Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield e Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield You must look into people as well as at them. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield The more one works, the more willing one is to work. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Take the tone of the company you are in. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Character must be kept bright as well as clean. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield...See Moreschoolhouse_gw
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