Oats Quotes
Oats Quote of the day
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.
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.
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
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.
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.
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.
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.