Pluck Quotes

Pluck Quote of the day

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

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.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

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.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

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.

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

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.

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]

If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

Want of pluck shows want of blood

To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

[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.

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.