Famous quotes containing the word weeds:
“Now tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and theyll outgrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Why, he was met even now
As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With hardocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)