Ploughman's Quotes

#1. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Thomas Gray

#2. A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Laurence J. Peter

#4. New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.

David Chang

#5. The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

Terry Pratchett

#7. Nature's noblemen are everywhere,
in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#8. Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

Brian Posehn

#9. Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight.

Clarence Manion

#10. 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

#11. The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them ...

Hugh Latimer

#12. Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

Tamsin Egerton

#13. I love London, but I love traveling, and I don't think I'll be here forever. Possibly, I'd like to move to New York and do a play in New York.

Lily James

#14. Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

Richard Henry Horne

#15. The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

Joey Bishop

#16. Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. I had a ploughman's lunch the other day. He wasn't very happy.

Tommy Cooper

#18. With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

David Alan Basche

#19. 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

#20. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees

Benjamin Franklin

#21. If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

Alfie Kohn

#22. The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#23. I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.

Gary Oldman

#24. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Garth Brooks

#25. If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

Kevin Bales

#26. Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

Timothy Garton Ash

#27. Those who are fascinated by evil all too easily fall pray to it themselves [said the old priest at the Mission Dolores].

Dianne Day