The tired ox plants his foot more firmly. [ Proverb ]
Plants too often removed will not thrive. [ Proverb ]
The tree that God plants no wind hurts it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Noble plants suit not with a stubborn soil. [ Proverb ]
In her days, every man shall eat in safety.
Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing
The merry song of peace to all his neighbours. [ William Shakespeare ]
If the brain sows not corn it plants thistles. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe.
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. [ Shakespeare ]
Children like olive plants round about thy table. [ Psalm cxxviii. 3 ]
How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence
They have their nourishment? [ William Shakespeare ]
He that plants trees loves others besides himself. [ Proverb ]
Shall not a man have his spring as well as the plants? [ Thoreau ]
He who plants a walnut tree expects not to eat of the fruit. [ Proverb ]
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. [ Shakespeare ]
Most men are like plants: they possess properties which chance discovers. [ De Saint-Real ]
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Like the plants that throw their fragrance from the wounded part, breathe sweetness out of woe. [ Moore ]
Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun. [ Carlyle ]
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness, gathers love. [ Basil ]
There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast which trusted to his truth. [ Byron ]
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. [ Joubert ]
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its bead proudly above its neighbor plants - forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. [ Bovee ]
O, the eye's light is a noble gift of heaven! All beings live from light; each fair created thing. The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. [ Schiller ]
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose [ James A. Garfield ]
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. [ Bacon ]
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. [ Zeno ]
For from the crushed flowers of gladness on the road of life a sweet perfume is wafted over to the present hour, as marching armies often send out from heaths the fragrance of trampled plants. [ Richter ]
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory. [ Evelyn ]
A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses. [ Whittier ]
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]