Weeds Quotes

“An ill weed grows apace.”

“Great weeds do grow apace.”

“The wolfsbane I should dread.”

“Weeds don't know they're weeds.”

“To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.”

“Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea.”

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.”

“The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.”

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“Nothing teems
But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
Losing both beauty and utility.”

“I will go root away
The noisome weeds which without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.”

“Still must I on, for I am as a weed,
Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail
Where'er the surge may sweep.”

“Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.”

“In the deep shadow of the porch
A slender bind-weed springs,
And climbs, like airy acrobat,
The trellises, and swings
And dances in the golden sun
In fairy loops and rings.”

“The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity;
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”