When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Tend your own garden: savor the blossoms, trim the weeds.
Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.
I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.
Don't plant your days they turn into weeds
If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.
There are bitter weeds in England.
sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.
