Spade Quotes
74 quotes by 54 authors
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,…
— William Cowper
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To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
— Beverley Nichols
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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to…
— John Ruskin
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a…
— Lucian
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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
— William Shakespeare
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In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
— Oscar Wilde
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So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the…
— Celia Thaxter
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Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's…
— Jeremiah Wright
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If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
— Aesop
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A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who…
— Gerhard
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Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and…
— Viktor Suvorov
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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
— John Stuart Mill
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Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.
— William Wordsworth
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Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
— Kate Spade
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With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through…
— Sarah Ferguson
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
— Louis Armstrong
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Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of…
— Hermann Hesse
Who Wrote These Spade Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 74 Spade Quotes, led by these top contributors: