Hay Quotes

• Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

  Groucho Marx

  Marriage, Funny Love, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us make hay while the sun shines.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Shining, Sun, Miscellaneous

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• Make hay while the sun shines.

  John Heywood

  Work, Opportunity, Shining

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Fellows

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [37]

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• Let's make hay while it lasts.

  James Lovelock

  Lasts

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• Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

  Bill Vaughan

  Horse, Smell, Different

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• I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

  Xander Berkeley

  Shining, Sun, Sun Shines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  William Banting

  Horse, Illustration, Ordinary

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17

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• The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Loss, May, Disaster

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• The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

  Amy Grant

  Rain, Rats, Adages

  Song: How Can We See That Far, Album: Heart in Motion, 1991

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• I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

  Bette Davis

  Boys, Famous Women, Fame

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, New York, Science

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

  Jean Froissart

  Home, Mean, Cutting

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• Work and pray, live on hay, youll get pie in the sky when you die.

  Joe Hill

  Sky, Pie, Praying

  "Preacher and the Slave" (song) (1911)

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• When the sunne shineth, make hay.

  John Heywood

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• A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.

  Walt Whitman

  Song, Cities, Smell

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.590, NYU Press

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• My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Dance, Men, Feet

  Edward II act 1, sc. 1 (1593)

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• Jolly boating weather,
  And a hay harvest breeze,
  Blade on the feather,
  Shade off the trees.

  William Johnson Cory

  Weather, Tree, Shade

  'Eton Boating Song' in 'Eton Scrap Book' (1865). E. Parker 'Floreat' (1923) p. 109

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• While we lie tumbling in the hay.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Lying, Tumbling

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soul, Stacking, Meadows

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.89, Xist Publishing

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• No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Regret, Church

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• Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Arthur Rimbaud (1995). “Una temporada en el infierno”, p.121, Editorial Montesinos

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• There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Hands, Desert

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• We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

  D. J. MacHale

  May, Needles, Has Beens

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Said Life, Years

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.898, Jazzybee Verlag

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