“ What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. ”
- Donald Culross Peattie- Copy
“ A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
“ He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
“ Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
“ I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better. ”
- Benny Hill- Copy
“ There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
“ Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits, which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers an fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts… ”
- James Allen- Copy
“ Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ The untrodden path is choked by the weeds of tradition. Be not afraid to cut through. ”
- George Hyman Rickover- Copy
“ Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
“ It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. ”
- Percy H. Johnston- Copy
“ 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 roses and jasmines. ”
- Jalaluddin Rumi- Copy
“ Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ”
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps- Copy
“ I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
“ If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. ”
- Luther Burbank- Copy
“ One does not lash at lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
“ 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 there, firm as weeds among stones. ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
“ Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
“ Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
“ The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
“ The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. ”
- David Hume- Copy
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