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  • 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. -- Goose Gossage
  • Leaders grasp nettles. -- David Ogilvy
  • Angry men make themselves beds of nettles. -- Samuel Richardson
  • Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety. -- William Shakespeare
  • Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
  • When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. -- Horace Walpole
  • My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. -- Fiona Wood
  • Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees. -- Richard Louv
  • WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE. -- Oliver Cromwell
  • 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. -- Edward Thomas
  • Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -- William Shakespeare
  • A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples And grow a fair amount of nettles. -- Czeslaw Milosz
  • The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape -- Thornton Wilder
  • 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. -- Anna Akhmatova
  • He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. -- William Shakespeare
  • For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed. -- Henry Miller
  • Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well. -- Aaron Hill
  • Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps. -- Obafemi Awolowo
  • With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators. -- Victor Hugo
  • The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia. Critical mass may be harder to achieve than with some non-confrontational euphemism, but if we did achieve it with the dread word atheist, the political impact would be all the greater. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles. -- Junichiro Tanizaki
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  • There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke. -- William Shakespeare
  • 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. -- S. J. Perelman
  • Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way. -- Aristophanes
  • 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. -- Henry Morton Stanley
  • Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles beyond Hell, where the Devil could not get for stinging nettles -- Francis Douce
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