"It is well to lie fallow for a…" — Martin Farquhar Tupper

More Fallow Quotes

This quote is filed under Fallow Quotes, one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by… — Joseph Addison
• Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. — Felicity Kendal
• A fallow field is a sin. — John Steinbeck
• Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and… — Pete Seeger
• In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. — Marlo Thomas
• The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. — Jamaica Kincaid
• Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all… — Tillie Olsen
• A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been… — Georg Brandes
• Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. — Mignon McLaughlin
• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley

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