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Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. -- Samuel Johnson
I've sown all the oats I want to sow. -- Stephanie Zimbalist
I Love Spirituality it reminds me of the Old Quaker Oats Commercial. "Nothing is better for thee than me"! -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. -- Richard Le Gallienne
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. -- Fred Allen
Anyone who takes the craft of songwriting seriously I radiate towards. Spending time with Daryl Hall was a dream come true. I picked his brain a lot because Hall And Oats is timeless. -- Travie McCoy
Who the heck is Don Quick-oats? -- Libba Bray
Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them. -- Shannon Fife
Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. -- Henry James Byron
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. -- Bill Bryson
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once. -- Edith Wharton
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. -- Winston Churchill
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. -- George Carlin
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. -- Alexander Pope
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. -- Daniel Levitin
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep. -- Karen White
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. -- Laini Taylor
And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late. -- Sally Wentworth
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. -- Arthur Baer
It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them. -- Frank James
I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time. -- John Mackey
I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke. -- Al Jourgensen
She was feeling her bohemian oats. -- Steve Martin
If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops. -- Hildegard of Bingen
A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats. -- Sholom Aleichem
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. -- Horace
I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't. -- William Shakespeare
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics). -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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. -- James Russell Lowell
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. -- Mark Helprin
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. -- Diana Gabaldon

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