Ploughman Quotes

10 quotes by 10 authors

• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is… — Henri Desgrange
• The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves… — Thomas Gray
• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your… — William Davenant
• What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus,… — Gordon Clark
• A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. — Benjamin Franklin
• 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
• The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. — Laurence J. Peter
• In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• 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 day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's… — George Bernard Shaw

Who Wrote These Ploughman Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 10 Ploughman Quotes as follows:

• 1 Ploughman Quote by Henri Desgrange
• 1 Ploughman Quote by Thomas Gray
• 1 Ploughman Quote by William Davenant
• 1 Ploughman Quote by Gordon Clark
• 1 Ploughman Quote by Benjamin Franklin
• 1 Ploughman Quote by Richard Henry Horne
• 1 Ploughman Quote by Laurence J. Peter
• 1 Ploughman Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Ploughman Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Ploughman Quote by George Bernard Shaw