Plough Quotes

62 Plough quotes by 56 unique authors

It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with… — Augustus De Morgan
The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface… — Louis Agassiz
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands. — Publilius Syrus
The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us. — Chief Joseph
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made… — Miguel de Cervantes
And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo. — Noel Coward
He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth. — John Ray
Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles,… — Abraham Cowley
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. — Osip Mandelstam
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. — Thomas Jefferson
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. — Francois Rabelais
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. — Philip Massinger
No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this… — Sathya Sai Baba
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your… — Richard Henry Horne
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder… — Neltje Blanchan
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low? — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think… — Will Ferrell
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would… — Thomas Huxley
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull… — George Orwell
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A… — Erich Maria Remarque
Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you… — Juan Manuel Santos
The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and… — Henry David Thoreau

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