Thistles Quotations

If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.