Weeds Quotes

252 quotes by 211 authors

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
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
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
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
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. — Sylvia Browne
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
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds. — Plutarch
Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? — Henry David Thoreau
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. — William Shakespeare
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
Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. — William Shakespeare
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
Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. — Rajneesh
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
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
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted. — Elbert Hubbard
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. — William Cowper
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin

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