John Ploughman Quotes

#1. You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.

Salmon P. Chase

#2. We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

Bjorn Lomborg

#3. All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

Adam Smith

#4. The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

John Lancaster Spalding

#5. Passion without purpose leads to frustration.
Purpose without passion leads to procrastination.
Passion with purpose leads to success.

Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#6. Feel free to follow your own path while I follow mine.

Marty Rubin

#7. Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.

John Gay

#8. I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Colum McCann