Oats quotes
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."
"In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once."
"Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."
"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."
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"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."
"I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't."
"She was feeling her bohemian oats."
"The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage."
