I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
Quotes about thistle (9 Quotes)
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
For years I thought the club's name was Partick Thistle Nil.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Jukka Santala grabbed a brace to earn Partick Thistle a 2-2 draw after Ayr United had twice gone ahead through Jerome Vareille and Paul Hyslop. We were by far the best side, ... But Ayr were frustrating to play against.
Trying to cure the economy by creating new debt is like planting thistle weed seed and hoping for daffodils No matter how great the intentions, you still get stuck in the end
It is really exciting as we will be pitting ourselves against several full-time clubs, which will generate a lot of interest for the fans, ... The stage is now set and the fans have been looking for a change. We set a target of about five years to get out of the Third Division, looking to the examples of Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County. That has now been achieved, but we are realistic enough to know that this time next year the club could be involved in its first ever relegation battle.