Weed Quotes - Page 29

• It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mind, Fields, Faults

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.836

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• A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patience, Use, Plant

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• He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Roots, Trying

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• E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

  Joseph Addison

  Rocks, Myrtle, Rich

  Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.179

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• The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Spring, Fighting, Hoe

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”

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• Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

  John Milton

  Sea, Dropping, Dank

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.691

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• Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

  Thomas Paine

  Together, Suspicion, Persecution

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

  Joseph Hall

  Running, Men, Grows

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.108

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• There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Track, Survival, Godmother

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.79, Library of America

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• Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Heart, Errors, Earth

  James Sheridan KNOWLES, Robert Shelton MACKENZIE (1838). “The Dramatic Works of J. S. K. With a Memoir by R. Shelton Mackenzie”

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• How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.

  Yelawolf

  Parent, Alabama, Illegal

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• We smoked a lot of weed together [with Seth Rogen and Jason Segel]. Lonely potheads will literally spend every day with each other until they get a girlfriend. That's essentially what happened.

  David Krumholtz

  Lonely, Girlfriend, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think at a certain point we a little bit forgot that it was a pot show. I think I said something to Harry [Elfont], around Episode 7 [of mary and Jane], I was like, "We have a pot show. Nobody is smoking any weed." There is literally a shot in the season finale where everybody lights up at the same time. I was like, "I feel like we are not honoring our concept." It just became a show. It became a show about these two girls doing this crazy thing and getting into all these adventures and it was really not about the weed.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Girl, Crazy, Adventure

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed garden, or poisons hurt the body when they are not taken, and antidotes are received against them.

  Roger Williams

  Hurt, Taken, Garden

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.

  Tommy Chong

  Marijuana, Brain, States

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• All I want to do is yoga and hike, and smoke weed. It's funny.

  Miley Cyrus

  Yoga, Want, Smoke

  Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

  Cass McCombs

  Thinking, Trying, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

  Chrissie Hynde

  Boys, Men, Pot

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The original idea [ of the Pineapple Express] came from Judd [Apatow] actually. He just kind of had the loose notion of like, 'What about a weed action movie?'.

  Seth Rogen

  Ideas, Pineapples, Action

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• I don't smoke weed on set all day. I just want to say that, you know, not all day. After lunch you get tired. What can you do? To me, the fact that a character smokes weed isn't really what I hang my hat on necessarily.

  Seth Rogen

  Character, Tired, Lunch

  "Seth Rogen Talks Green Hornet And Kevin Smith's Porno". Interview With Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. August 6, 2008.

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• A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Love, Life, Flower

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• Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Poverty, Dignity, Bitter

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• sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Flower, Soul, Crowds

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.407, U of Nebraska Press

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• Republicans in Congress are getting concerned that President Obama will try to use the final year of his term to push through too many controversial laws. Obama would've responded but he was busy drafting his new 'mandatory Mexican gay weed' bill.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Gay, Years, Law

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• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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