when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.
The infernal flag-waving after 911 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.
Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
