Plough Quotes
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Plough Quotes & Sayings
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In order to have bread (a symbol of prosperity ) you have to first learn how to plough the land
— Sunday Adelaja
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nihilism is ... not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
— Samuel Rutherford
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]
— Horace
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 done.
— Chris Murray
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
— Publilius Syrus
We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.
— Sorin Cerin
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
— Joe Abercrombie
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
— Thomas Jefferson
If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives a plough to know more of the scriptures than you do.
— William Tyndale
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
— Philip Massinger
And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
With the gun you can make the earth red but if you have a plough you can make the earth green.
— Narendra Modi
A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases;
His wisdom does not increase. — Anonymous
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases;
His wisdom does not increase. — Anonymous
He plough on Sunday, Sir.
Plough on Sunday?! — Arthur Miller
Plough on Sunday?! — Arthur Miller
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
— Swami Vivekananda
Oh It's home again, and homed again, America for me. I want a ship that's Westward bound, to plough the rolling sea.
— Henry Van Dyke
I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
— Xavier Dolan
The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars
— James Connolly
Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".
— Charles Spurgeon
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.
— Robert Southwell
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
— Walter Lippmann
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
— Benjamin Franklin
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
— Louis Agassiz
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
[Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.] — Horace
[Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.] — Horace
Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
— Ann Cotton
We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.
— Silvia Cartwright
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
— Benjamin Franklin
From the older ox the younger learns to plough.
— Amitav Ghosh
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!
— Richard Henry Horne
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
— Henry David Thoreau
The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.
— Chief Joseph
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
— Francois Rabelais
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.
— Osip Mandelstam
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
— Chris Priestley
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.
— Thomas Davis
The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.
— Margaret Fuller
The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
— Horace
He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
— Benjamin Franklin