Herbs

Herbs are plants that are valued for flavor, scent, medicinal or other qualities. Herbs are used in cooking, as medicines, and for spiritual purposes.

Quotes

 * Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, Remember me to one who lives there, He (she) once was a true love of mine.
 * Scarborough Fair, a traditional English ballad of unknown origin, recorded by various artists in the 20th century.


 * Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
 * William Cullen Bryant, Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids (1826), stanza 4.


 * Dreary rosmarye That always mourns the dead.
 * Thomas Hood, Flowers, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 682.


 * I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir, And it gives forth an odor sweet and rare; But crush it harshly and you'll make a scent Most disagreeable.
 * Charles Godfrey Leland, Sweet Basil, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 774.


 * The basil tuft, that waves Its fragrant blossom over graves.
 * Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), "Light of the Harem", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 57.


 * The humble rosemary Whose sweets so thanklessly are shed To scent the desert and the dead.
 * Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), "Light of the Harem", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 682.


 * There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i. e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, which carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.
 * Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XXI, Chapter X; Holland's translation, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 137.


 * In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
 * Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, 219.


 * There's rosemary, that's for remembrance.
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet (c. 1600), Act IV, scene 5, line 175.


 * I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.
 * William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595), Act II, scene 1, line 249.


 * Mrs. Lovett: What's my secret, frankly dear forgive my candor, family secret all to do with herbs, things like being careful with your coriander, that's what makes the gravy grander.
 * Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979).


 * The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds: but, when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
 * Joseph Smith, Jr., reported in Alma P. Burton, Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 259.


 * The sweet mouth gathers sweet herbs.
 * Šuruppak, Instructions of Shuruppak (3rd millennium BCE).


 * Oregano is the spice of life.
 * Henry Tillman[who?], as attributed without citation in Spice of life (May 23, 2005) by Rajiv.M, The Hindu.

“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version