Love is a gamble, an' there ain't no certs. - C. J. Dennis

For many years it has been my habit to divide gardeners into three classes. These are professional gardeners, professional amateur gardeners, and amateur amateur gardeners.

Oh, to be in England Now that Summer’s there!
For who plays the Game in England Is each morning well aware
That the cricket-pitch is water-logged,
And the in-field’s wet and the out-field’s bogged: For it’s surely raining, anyhow, In England—now!

They say the whole world’s down and out; But here’s what I can’t see:
If every land, beyond all doubt,
In all the earth is up the spout— Then who's the mortgagee?