A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
~Doug Larson

A weed is but an unloved flower.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's.
~Author Unknown

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
~Donald Culross Peattie

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.
~Dave Barry

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.
~Helena Rutherfurd Ely, A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1903

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.
~Robert M. Pyle

Weeds are nature's graffiti.
~Janice Maeditere

They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.
~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994

We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
~E.J. Salisbury, The Living Garden, 1935

I learn more about GodFrom weeds than from roses;Resilience springingThrough the smallest chink of hopeIn the absolute of concrete....
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Weeds," Perspectives, www.originals.net

First time I've picked weeds in almost a year. Definitely missed it. I love the smell of dirt and plant revealing their hidden nature.
~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
~Author Unknown

Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.
~Author Unknown

Roses are red,Violets are blue;But they don't get aroundLike the dandelions do.
~Slim Acres

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
~A.A. Milne

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
~John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881

May all your weeds be wildflowers.
~Author Unknown

Free WeedsU Pick 'Em
~Author Unknown

You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.
~Terri Guillemets

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
~Author Unknown

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.
~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973

A good garden may have some weeds.
~Thomas Fuller

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
~Author Unknown

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
~William Shakespeare

A man of words and not of deedsIs like a garden full of weedsAnd when the weeds begin to growIt's like a garden full of snow...
~John Fletcher, part of a nursery rhyme (Thanks, Paul!)

Weed 'em and reap.
~Author Unknown

Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.
~Author Unknown

Don't water your weeds.
~Proverb

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
~Henry Ward Beecher

A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
~Francis Bacon

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Thanks to Michael Garofalo of The Spirit of Gardeningfor sharing some of these great quotes!