Ifs Quote by George Herbert Download Open image “If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.” — George Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Plant Thistles
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. — James Thomas Fields Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If the farmer should make a mistake and sow thistle seed instead of wheat, the soil-doesn't say to him, "My friend, you have made… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Sitting on thistles doesn't do them any Good. Take all the Life out of them. — Eeyore Copy Share Image
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
If life was a box of thistles, I would deal with all the tough and prickly ones just so you wouldn't ever have to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
