But they whom truth and wisdom lead
Can gather honey from a weed. [ Cowper ]
Beware of flattery, It is a weed
Which oft offends the very idol - vice,
Whose shrine it would perfume. [ Fenton ]
To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. [ Lowell ]
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that bites on every weed may light on poison. [ Proverb ]
One wicked weed spoils a whole mess of porridge. [ Proverb ]
Detraction is a weed that grows only on dunghills. [ Proverb ]
Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly in a dunghill. [ Proverb ]
Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them. [ William Shakespeare ]
Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows. [ Knowles ]
Out of the same garden-mould grows the weed as the flower, and the weed flaunts itself abroad. [ Bodenstedt ]
Science keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation. [ Tyndall ]
'Twas but a dream - let it pass - let it vanish like so many others! What I thought was a flower is only a weed, and is worthless. [ Longfellow ]
It may be remarked for the comfort of honest poverty that avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them. This is a weed that will grow in a barren soil. [ Hughes ]
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. [ O. W. Holmes ]