Grain Quotes

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Heaven is in a grain of sand.

An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and that doesn't make for an ideal religious follower.

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

Your 'Pringle' contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may be no better for you than a snickers.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.