A Quote by James Russell Lowell

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

James Russell Lowell

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Disguise Flower More Than Weed

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James Russell Lowell
American - Poet
February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

James Russell Lowell

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

John Galsworthy

Certainly, if more people were smoking instead of drinking, people don’t get mean on weed, don’t beat up their wives on weed, and don’t drive crazy on weed. They just get hungry, don’t go out of the house, or laugh a lot. I think it would make for a much more gentle world.

Susan Sarandon

A flower is an educated weed.

Luther Burbank

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Robert Metcalfe

Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

Aaron Neville

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

George Stigler

The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

Wayne Dyer

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Khaled Hosseini

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

Nhat Hanh

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Alan Perlis

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.