“That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.” — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it… — William Halsey Copy Share Image
If life was a box of thistles, I would deal with all the tough and prickly ones just so you wouldn't ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
“The heart's actions are neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite. One bird singing back… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful,… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
