1.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Jeremy Bentham
Generate all the joy you can; abolish all the suffering you can.
2.
When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.
Gautama Buddha
3.
We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.
Loren Eiseley
4.
When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.
Paulo Coelho
5.
To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.
Etheridge Knight
6.
The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
William Shakespeare
7.
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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
8.
Want of pluck shows want of blood
Virgil
10.
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
[Lat., Noli
Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
Juvenal
12.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Alexandre Dumas
14.
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
Erik Larson
15.
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
Audre Lorde
16.
When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.
David Sedaris
17.
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
William Rounseville Alger
18.
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.
Conor Oberst
19.
To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.
Min
21.
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.
Horace
22.
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
Henry Taylor
23.
Anyone can pluck a flowertrue strength is knowing how to give it life
Aprilynne Pike