The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. — Henry David Thoreau
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. — David Icke
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Charles Tomlinson
The oak tree:
not interested
in cherry blossoms. — Matsuo Basho
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. — Robert Jordan
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render. — Edgar Fawcett
The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. — Anonymous
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough. — Sappho
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks. — Sappho
If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops. — Hildegard of Bingen
I've sown all the oats I want to sow. — Stephanie Zimbalist
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. — Richard Le Gallienne
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. — Samuel Johnson
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Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors. — Bill Bryson
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. — Fred A. Allen
Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up. — George Carlin
Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye. — Daniel Levitin
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, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. — Plautus
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics). — John Kenneth Galbraith
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. — Winston Churchill
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. — Alexander Pope
But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter? — Anne Bosworth Greene
Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood. — James Russell Lowell
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once. — Edith Wharton
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food. — Waverley Root
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. — Charles Dudley Warner
Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them. — Shannon Fife
My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange environment. It was hung heavy with oat dust, the place was infested with mice, and everyone who worked there was over 60, and I was 18. It was crazy. Apologies to anyone who works in animal-feed packing industry and loves it. — Simon Pegg
I'm thrilled that Alice Medrich, one of America's premier bakers, has embraced teff, buckwheat, oat, and rice flours. She understands that these flours are far more than substitutes for wheat flour. These flavor flours are stars on their own, full of character. Her recipes are sure to entice you to move into the kitchen and start baking. — Shauna James Ahern
Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats. — Jordan Sonnenblick
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. — Arthur Baer
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for theground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there. — Charles Dudley Warner
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. — Horace
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him. — Henry David Thoreau
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. — Ben Gibbard
Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them. — Ben Gibbard
To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.
Let it come, as it will, and don't
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come. — Jane Kenyon
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, Is he as crazy as I am? I don’t need that question answered. — Philip Roth
We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them. — Frank James
It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience. — Robert Baden-Powell
Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself. — Debra Dean
I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
If it be man's work, I'll do't. — William Shakespeare
Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales. — Inara George
And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late. — Sally Wentworth
I was sowing wild oats and doing the kind of things that you should do when you don't have kids. Now, I'm just doing less of that, but I earned it, you know. I feel like just spending quiet evenings with my wife and son and sitting in bed in the morning and watching him marvel over the curtains opening or whatever little thing. That all feels really good. And so, I've changed because I'm impressed. — Chris Pratt
Water trotted is as good as oates. — George Herbert
A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal. — Katharine Hepburn
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