Bears Quote by Teresa of Avila

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— Austin O'Malley

“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

If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

— John Keats

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

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

— James Thomas Fields

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

— John Burroughs