“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”
William Shakespeare
“The more I think about the nettle argument, the more it makes me laugh. This country's awash with nettles. Butterflies that eat them are not in any difficulty at all.”
Ken Thompson
“No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.”
Bible
“Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.”
“The world's a nettle. Disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
