Weeds

Famous quotes containing the word weeds:

    I will go root away
    The noisome weeds which without profit suck
    The soil’s fertility from wholesome flowers.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The old man had heard that there was a wreck and knew most of the particulars, but he said that he had not been up there since it happened. It was the wrecked weed that concerned him most ... and those bodies were to him but other weeds which the tide cast up, but which were of no use to him.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Now ‘tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
    Suffer them now, and they’ll outgrow the garden,
    And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)