“5465. Weeds are apt to grow faster than good Herbs.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”
Less Than the Dust
Indian Love Lyrics (aka Garden of Kama) (1901)
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George Chapman An Humorous Day's Mirth
An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Welsh journalist and explorer
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: Perfect
“[W]ithout hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Farewell to a Prophet, Ensign, July 1994.
“As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.”
Joseph Lewis (1889–1968) American activist
The Ten Commandments
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!”
William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads
Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 2 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)