Pruning Quotes

Pruning Quote of the day

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

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.

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.