Leaders grasp nettles.
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
The rose is often found near the nettle.
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in the city.
Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.
I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.
