Top 8 Gourds Quotes - Quoted Daily

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Party, Fall, Gourds

"David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 107, 1994.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Charlotte Bronte

Spring, Night, Gourds

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

John Keats

Fall, Autumn, Gourds

"To Autumn" l. 1 (1820)

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

Dorothy Gilman

Gourds, Use, World

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

Charles Spurgeon

Gourds, May, Jonah

Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Gourds, Vines

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

Growth, Progress, Gourds

Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283