Corn Quotes

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Never take candy from strangers.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Some people look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why?' I look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why not?'

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn

But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to God!

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

I ain't gonna pay no dollar for a corn muffin that's half dough.

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.