The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
When I am stressed I pluck my beard, leaving bald patches.
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future
Anyone can pluck a flowertrue strength is knowing how to give it life
We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.
A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain
Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.
I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.
We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
I'm not actually very good at the maintenance thing. I don't buff, exfoliate, pluck, rinse, moisturise, suck, bleach... whatever all those women do.
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
[Lat., Noli
Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.
Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.
If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.
The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.
Focus on eating real, whole, natural foods. As I love to say, if you can pick it, pluck it, milk it, or shoot it, you can eat it!
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.
To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
'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.
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.
Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!
This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.
You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.
Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]
I have had a really terrible makeover experience gone wrong. For a job, I was wearing a tank top that came a little low, and I was told to pluck my chest hair. I went and shaved it, but they wanted to pluck them!
When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.
To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.
Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
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