66 Fallow Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous fallow quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational fallow quotes. Hopefully, these fallow quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your fallow knowledge!
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Famous Fallow Quotes
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. — Ovid
Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall. — Unknown
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing. — Solomon
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila
Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue women when you feel the passion. — Tibetan Proverbs
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. — William Blake
Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin. — Egyptian Proverbs
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. — William Shakespeare
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. — Paramahansa Yogananda
He plough'd her, and she cropp'd. — William Shakespeare
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. — Benjamin Franklin
If you do not sow in the spring, you will not reap in the autumn. — Irish Proverbs
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods. — Henry Beston
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. — Edwin Way Teale
If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap. — Andrew Carnegie
Short Fallow Quotes
- A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley
- Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. — Cheech Marin
- It is well to lie fallow for a while. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
- Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. — Felicity Kendal
- Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. — Gene Black
- It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say. — Emmylou Harris
- I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential. — Catherine Stock
- I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work. — Ralph Fiennes
- Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time. — Mignon McLaughlin
- A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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 Ovid |
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 Unknown |
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 Solomon |
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 Teresa of Avila |
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 Tibetan Proverbs |
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More Fallow Quotes
If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner. — Hammurabi
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. — Georg Brandes
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring. — Henri Frederic Amiel
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The fallow and the flood; In God the earth rejoices still, And owns her Maker good. — Reginald Heber
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. — Joseph Addison
The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart. — Charles Spurgeon
Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days. — Will Carleton
Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage. — Jean Houston
You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow. — John Steinbeck
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life. — Henry Miller
Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on. — Robert Grosseteste
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. — Orson Welles
When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how to keep it rolling for as long as you can. — Bent Saether
I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a great manager who keeps our coffers topped off, and we give ourselves a sensible wage with a view to having three fallow years between records. We always make sure we have enough money to make a record and not be pressured time-wise. — Guy Garvey
As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits. — Catherynne M. Valente
The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found preferable. The case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity. — William Benton Clulow
Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued. — Louise Imogen Guiney
Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds. — George Stillman Hillard
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. — John Milton
Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality our garden is filled with all sorts of interesting items--it was not, after all, a fallow place before we sought to investigate what might be there and what we could possibly put in it. Everyone's spiritual garden is different, because each individual is unique. — Silver RavenWolf
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being. — Sam Keen
Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a key, we have forgotten the importance of fallow time and winter and rests in music. We have abandoned a whole system of dealing with the neutral zone through ritual, and we have tried to deal with personal change as though it were a matter of some kind of readjustment. — William Bridges
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. — Jamaica Kincaid
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. — Marlo Thomas
And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of? — Pete Seeger
A fallow field is a sin. — John Steinbeck
..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring. — Susanna Kearsley
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues. — John Dewey
For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself. — Sophie Kinsella
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. — Jerry Saltz
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