Top Pluck Quotes

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

I have become intoxicated again.You are such a potent wine, my friend.To escape your withdrawal effects,tomorrow I will drink in excess.Alas, why make me love?I was aware, conscious, and sensible befo...

Pluck Definition

(v. t.) To pull; to draw.

(v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.

(v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

(v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.

(v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

(n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

(n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

(n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

(n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.

(v. t.) The lyrie.

I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the consid...

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if som...

Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.