Thistle Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer…
— Edwin Way Teale
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What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.
— James Thomas Fields
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[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…
— William Halsey
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A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick
— John Arlott
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Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the…
— Damon Knight
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I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated…
— Kingsley Amis
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Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer…
— Mary Howitt
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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
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart…
— Gabriela Mistral
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it.…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made…
— Julie Garwood
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Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me…
— Jose Marti
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A miser is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles all its life.
— Vikrant Parsai
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Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the…
— GEORGE ELIOT
Who Wrote These Thistle Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Thistle Quotes as follows: