The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Take your nettles and sew my mouth shut but you well never here the last of me. — James Copy Share Image
The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us,… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“But stinging nettles: They just love existing, don't they? They're bastards. Stinging nettles are the Nazis of the weed world.” — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so,… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
Nettles' became a dream of losing the one you love, asking them to reassure you that it won't come true and to… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a… — John Heywood Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Tall Nettles Tall nettles cover up, as they have done These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough Long worn out, and… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
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