A Quote by Edwin Paxton Hood

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

Edwin Paxton Hood

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Between Difference False Flowers Grow Like Merely Much Shape Sometimes Tell True True And False Very Weeds

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Edwin Paxton Hood
English - Author
1820 - 1885

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

Mason Cooley

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

Julian Barnes

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Harold Pinter

Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

Hakuun Yasutani

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

George R. R. Martin

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

Bruce Lee

Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.

Lesley Kagen

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

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Salvador Dali

People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.

Hunter S. Thompson

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

John Keats

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

Daniel D. Palmer

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Rebecca West

I don't like weeds! My father made me mow weeds and cut weeds when I was a kid. I've hated weeds ever since I was 12 years old. I'll never go in the weeds! I'll never gonna take you in the weeds.

Rush Limbaugh

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

David Hobson

When a fact begins to resemble whatever you feel is true, it becomes very difficult for anyone to tell the difference between facts that are true and 'facts' that are not.

Katharine Viner

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