Thistle Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

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
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
What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. — James Thomas Fields
[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
A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick — John Arlott
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
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
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
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
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
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
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
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
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
A miser is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles all its life. — Vikrant Parsai
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
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: