Sitting on thistles doesn't do them any Good. Take all the Life out of them. — Eeyore Copy Share Image
What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. — James Thomas Fields Copy Share Image
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. — William Morris Copy Share Image
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down;… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Briars and thistles wither not so soon as lilies and roses. They may be taken out of the world, of whom the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one?… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue -… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The unicorn discovered several clumps of yellowed thistles and ate them with relish. This time Ciri did not join him. But when… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and… — Williston Fish Copy Share Image
... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?"… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese… — William Halsey Copy Share Image
Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
![“[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done…” quote by William Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/905/william-halsey-31828_admiral_admiral-nelson-s-counsel-guided-me-time_3184967.jpg)
