Benefactors Quote by Anonymous

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

— Teresa of Avila

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

— Anonymous

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

— Oliver Cromwell

“Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All…

— William Shakespeare

If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

— James Thomas Fields

Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth.

— Santoka Taneda

“Where weeds are sown, weeds grow.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are…

— William Shakespeare

“When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far overtopped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy…

— Emily Brontë