Quotes on Nettles

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

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

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

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.