Pluck Quotes

126 quotes by 110 authors

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some… — Cennino Cennini
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when… — Henry David Thoreau
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum. — William Shakespeare
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes. — Ovid
We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand. — Philip James Bailey
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion. — Martial
The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him. — Euripides
Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on… — Maurice Maeterlinck
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the… — Friedrich Schiller
When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out. — David Sedaris
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success,… — Albert Goodwill Spalding
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to… — Theodore Roosevelt
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great… — Hans Christian Andersen
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then… — Martin Luther
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. — James A. Garfield
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I… — Muhammad Iqbal
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. — Abraham Lincoln
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has… — Marquis de Sade

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