Sin will pluck on sin. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have a crow to pluck with you. [ Proverb ]

The more pluck, the better luck!

I won't pluck the beard of a dead lion. [ Mart ]

Pluck the acacia's golden balls.
And mark where the red pomegranate falls. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

Pluck is not so common nowadays as genius. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain. [ Horace ]

Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare ]

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain?
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Pluck not a courtesy in the bud before it is ripe. [ Proverb ]

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. [ William Shakespeare ]

The heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which the lovers pluck the leaves, leaving only the thorns for the husband.

How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]