Weeds Quotes
252 quotes by 211 authors
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in…
— Teresa of Avila
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
— Honore de Balzac
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Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product.…
— William Bernbach
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
— Sylvia Browne
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks…
— A. S. Byatt
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
— Plutarch
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Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
— Henry David Thoreau
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Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
— William Shakespeare
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be…
— Thomas Huxley
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Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.
— William Shakespeare
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion…
— Robert Fulghum
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Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.
— Rajneesh
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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the…
— Rumi
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Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
— Elbert Hubbard
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
— William Cowper
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A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
— Benjamin Franklin
Who Wrote These Weeds Quotes
211 authors contributed a total of 252 Weeds Quotes, led by these top contributors: