March grass never did good. [ Proverb ]
Your crop is still in grass. [ Ovid ]
There is a snake in the grass. [ Proverb ]
Grass grows not on the highway. [ Proverb ]
There grows no grass at the cross. [ Proverb ]
Grass grows at last above all graves. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
The green grass floweth like a stream
Into the ocean's blue. [ Lowell ]
While the grass grows the steed starves. [ Proverb ]
The higher the hill, the lower the grass. [ Proverb ]
Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night. [ William Shakespeare ]
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! [ William Shakespeare ]
We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May;
Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away. [ R. Southwell ]
The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. [ William Shakespeare ]
The garden lies,
A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream. [ Tennyson ]
Duty grows everywhere - like children, like grass. [ Emerson ]
You eat up that grass, which I meant to make hay of. [ Proverb ]
Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friendship. [ Mme. Geoffrin ]
He that is afraid of every nettle must not piss in the grass. [ Proverb ]
The grass may be greener on the other side but it is still grass
An ass may be laden with gold but it is still an ass. [ Unknown ]
He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. [ Horace ]
Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise. [ Lowell ]
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. [ Sterling ]
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. [ Samuel Johnson ]
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. [ Bible ]
We bury love; forgetfulness grows over it like grass; that is a thing to weep for, not the dead. [ Alexander Smith ]
Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth. [ Dante ]
With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Yellow japanned buttercups and star-disked dandelions - just as we see them lying in the grass, like sparks that have leaped from the kindling sun of summer. [ O. W. Holmes ]
The air seems made up of happiness, the clouds, the trees, the grass, the pathless birds, land and water, - all seem to pulsate happiness, to emit it, to breathe it forth upon us; and it falls upon us as dew upon flowers. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, - all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise. [ Auerbach ]
Association is the delight of the heart not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes. [ Willmott ]
Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. [ Channing ]