Poison Ivy Quotes:

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

- George Ade

topic: Leadership, Sports, Men, Poison Ivy, Spinach

I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Fall, Kids, Hands, Poison Ivy

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

- Alan Chadwick

topic: Ivy, Devil, Poison, Poison Ivy

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

topic: God, Mom, Thinking, Poison Ivy, Gaia

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Honesty, Fighting, Ivy, Bossy, Poison Ivy

I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

- Tabitha Suzuma

topic: Ivy, Poison, Growing, Poison Ivy

The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was lost somewhere in the trees and thicket and down through the poison ivy. It was during one of these searches that I vowed to the Lord above that if I ever earned enough money I would never set foot on a course again.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Golf, Play, Ivy, Golf Ball, Poison Ivy

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

topic: Dog, Punishment, Ivy, Poison Ivy

The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.

- Tracy Thompson

topic: Circles, Ivy, Anxiety, Poison Ivy