If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.
I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.
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.
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
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.
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.
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.
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.
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.
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys. . . Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.
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?
Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
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.