Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author
"Ten acres and a mule." Author: Unattributed Author
Topic: Agriculture
Three acres and a cow. Author: Jeremy Bentham
Topic: Agriculture
Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds are rolled Its waves of emerald and gold. Author: William Henry Burleigh
Topic: Agriculture
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. Author: Cicero
Topic: Agriculture
He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land. Author: Lucinus Junius
Topic: Agriculture
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Topic: Agriculture
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Author: Thomas Gray
Topic: Agriculture
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. Author: Horace
Topic: Agriculture
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers! Author: Richard Hengist Horne
Topic: Agriculture
The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven. Author: Douglas Jerrold
Topic: Agriculture
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. Author: Douglas Jerrold
Topic: Agriculture
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. Author: Douglas Jerrold
Topic: Agriculture
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. Author: John Stuart Mill
Topic: Agriculture
Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. Author: John Milton
Topic: Agriculture
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. Author: Ovid
Topic: Agriculture
Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. Author: Pliny The Elder
Topic: Agriculture
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Author: Alexander Pope
Topic: Agriculture
Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. Author: Alexander Pope
Topic: Agriculture
Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. Author: Alexander Pope
Topic: Agriculture
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Author: Jonathan Swift 1 | 2 | Next > >
Topic: Agriculture