Agriculture Quote by Richard Henry Horne

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better…

— Andrew Taylor Still

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

— Francois Rabelais

Easy for you to say. You’re the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing.

— J. Lynn

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get…

— Chris Murray

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

— Walter Scott

The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

— Alexander Pope

“Then a ploughman said, speak to us of work: in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life…

— Khalil Gibran

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on…

— Benjamin Franklin

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust…

— Ivan Illich

Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.

— Langston Hughes