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“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
William Shakespeare
“Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own”
Proverb
“A good garden may have some weeds”
Thomas Fuller
“We can get fuel from fruit, from that shrub by the roadside, or from apples, weeds, saw-dust - almost anything! There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There is enough alcohol in one year's yield of a hectare of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the field for a hundred years. And it remains for someone to find out how this fuel can be produced commercially - better fuel at a cheaper price than we know now.”
Henry Ford
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds”
David Hume
“Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.”
Norman R. Augustine
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds”
Plutarch
“Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.”
William S. Burroughs
“So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.”
Snoop Dogg