Pluck Quotes

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

'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.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

Sin will pluck on sin.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

Anyone can pluck a flowertrue strength is knowing how to give it life

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.

I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.

When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!

To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.