WEED

Related Subjects: Flowers, Garden, Grass

1. Call us not weeds; we are flowers of the sea.—E. L. AVELINE, The Mother's Fables

2. An ill weed grows apace.—GEORGE CHAPMAN, An Humorous Day's Mirth
   

3. The flowers are loved, the weeds are spurned,
   But for them both the suns are burned;
   And when, at last, they fail the day,
   The long night folds them all away.—J. V. CHENEY, Weeds and Flowers
   

4. What I thought was a flower is only a weed, and is worthless.—LONGFELLOW,
   Courtship of Miles Standish
   

5. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise,
   Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.—LOWELL, A Fable for Critics
   

6. The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

7. He that bites on every weed must needs light on poison.—Proverb
   

8. One ill weed mars a whole mess of pottage.—Proverb
   

9. Nothing teems
   But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
   Losing both beauty and utility.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
   

10. Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
    Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry Vl
    

11. Burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
    Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
    In our sustaining corn.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

12. O thou weed,
    Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
    That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

13. Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

14. Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet XCIV
    

15. Once in a golden hour
    I cast to earth a seed.
    Up there came a flower,
    The people said, a weed.—TENNYSON, The Flower