Age Quote by James Thomas Fields

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

— Teresa of Avila

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

— Anonymous

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

— Anonymous

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

— Ram Dass

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

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

— Austin O'Malley

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

The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Sitting on thistles doesn't do them any Good. Take all the Life out of them.

— Eeyore

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

— Henry James Byron

When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then…

— Mary Howitt