(44 quotes found)
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely”
Chinese Proverbs
“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”
William Shakespeare
“The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose”
Kenneth Hare
“Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.”
Wallace Stevens
“Everyone wants to pluck them [eyebrows]. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.”
Denise Richards
“I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming--plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience.”
Cillian Murphy
“You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard”
