“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
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
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 farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough… — Anonymous 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
'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
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
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
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
“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