Nettle Quotes

#1. If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool's vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit.

Robin Hobb

#2. Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

William Shakespeare

#3. The rose is often found near the nettle.

Ovid

#4. Wisdom is in measured routine. Three naps a day will keep you fit, nine breakfasts before noon, spin until you fall on your back, and thrust your face into a nettle plant. Drink at least five cups of a mare's urine and look upon your self in a silver mirror while you hold your air in your chest.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

William Shakespeare

#6. He loves to tease and nettle me to the brink of murder, but I wouldn't have it any other way. He is everything in this world to me. Samia

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. Then it's a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes and trying any old thing.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#8. It nods and curtseys and recovers
When the wind blows above,
The nettle on the graves of lovers
That hanged themselves for love.
The nettle nods, the wind blows over,
The man, he does not move,
The lover of the grave, the lover
That hanged himself for love.

A.E. Housman

#9. And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.

Stella Gibbons

#10. Hot nettle stew, we should have thrown you from your horse ages ago.

Nicole Sager

#11. That it was an advantage to him to be interrupted in speaking, and that his adversaries were afraid to nettle him, lest his anger should redouble his eloquence.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#13. The first rule of her
confrontational life-style was Always get the last word. The second
was Always make the first move. Making this first move was what she
thought of as Taking Care of Things, and she meant to take care of
Nettle in a hurry.

Stephen King

#14. 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

#15. [the doctor] clicked by mistake on the notes of a patient she'd got to know well - too well. The unfortunate Mrs. Swayne had become unhealthily doctor-dependent. But had she grasped the nettle? Had she actually finally and against all predictions left the country?

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. the fragrant bunches of nettle and dried lavender overhead, dusty gold

Diana Gabaldon

#20. Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

Isaac Asimov

#21. Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.

Terry Pratchett

#22. Mace leaned on his shovel and did a passable imitation. "'I think we'd rather not.' Very good, guv'nor. I'll remember that next time."
"Divigation was nice. Where'd you get that one?"
"He swallowed a ****ing dictionary," Corporal Nettle said proudly.

Ian McEwan

#23. 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.
Aaron Hill

Michael Tappenden

#24. My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

Fiona Wood

#25. I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon.

Robin Hobb

#26. Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

Barry Manilow

#27. We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.

Mark Boyle

#28. Lessened theory of mind processing has also been linked to paranoia. After all, if one does not accurately model the mental state of another, one may treat it as hostile.

Daniel Nettle

#29. It wasn't me! Look at how little I am. I'm a little guy.

Pete Wentz

#30. The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#31. However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones - only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.

Daniel Nettle

#32. 18 And I would exhort you, my beloved brethren, that ye remember that aevery good bgift cometh of Christ.

The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

#33. An average American child will see 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on TV by age eighteen.

Greg Nettle

#34. Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods.

Naomi Wolf