Distance Quote by Richard Whately

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

— John Keats

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like…

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There,…

— Plautus

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

— Mahatma Gandhi

Men are different than women, and men live with - with some very difficult obstacles. I mean, a man, basically, in his true nature,…

— Goldie Hawn

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there…

— Aristotle

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

— William Tyler

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

— Wallace Thurman

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

— John Burnham Schwartz