Oats Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a… — Fred Allen
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. — Henry James Byron
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. — Bill Bryson
If we were to go back in time 100 years and ask a farmer what he'd like if he could have anything, he'd probably say… — Philip Quigley
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policyâ€”what an older and less elegant generation… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So… — Charles Dudley Warner
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving… — Alexander Pope
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once. — Edith Wharton
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the… — Henry David Thoreau
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. — Richard Le Gallienne
I've sown all the oats I want to sow. — Stephanie Zimbalist
She was feeling her bohemian oats. — Steve Martin
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics). — John Kenneth Galbraith
A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys… — C.S. Lewis
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals… — Karen White
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix… — Oscar Wilde
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. — Samuel Johnson
Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats. — Jordan Sonnenblick
Who the heck is Don Quick-oats? — Libba Bray
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue,… — Diana Gabaldon

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