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.

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• 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.

Flowering Oregano

• Oregano is the spice of life.
  • Henry Tillman, as reported in Spice of life (May 23, 2005) by Rajiv.M, The Hindu.