Quotes of Nettle - somelinesforyou

“ A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. ”

- S.J. Perelman

“ He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape. ”

- Thornton Wilder
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