Oats Quotes

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

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.

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

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.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

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.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

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.

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?

So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.

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.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.