Wild Oats Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Robert Baden-Powell

#3. I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. 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

#5. Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

Horace

#6. His genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.

Charles Dickens

#7. In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.

Edith Wharton

#8. The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Henry James Byron

#9. Reagan has won over my undying love, but I'm willing to date around while she sows her wild oats.

K.A. Tucker

#10. But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already. That's like scarlatina - one has to go through it and get it over.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.

Victor Hugo

#12. But Vivien wasn't being given the chance to sow her wild oats. Speaking from a point of authority, it's best to get that shit out of the way when you are young.

Lisa Lutz

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Ryder: "Well, you're not the type I want to be my first either."
Grace:"What?"
Ryder: "You're the type I want to be my last. You know ... the settle down and marry sort. If you're my first, then I won't get to - I don't know - sow any wild oats or anything.

Linda Kage

#17. Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.

Alison Weir

#18. I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was time to grow sage. Or so I imagined.

Stephen Fry

#19. You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

Katharine Hepburn

#20. We knew we did not lay down the direction of the street, but despite that, we could - and must - fashion the way of our walk.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#21. While I AM sure of what I want, I'm equally unsure of how to attain it.

Siobhan Davis

#22. I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

Katie Waitman

#23. I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

John Landgraf

#24. Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

Ida Tarbell

#25. If we do a really great good job on new vaccines and healthcare, we can lower the world population by 10 to 15%.

Robin Sacredfire

#26. Best Choices in Grains Higher in protein: teff, amaranth, quinoa Higher in fiber: bulgur Lower in carbohydrates and calories: buckwheat, bulgur, polenta, oats, wild rice Higher in calcium and iron: amaranth, teff Higher in omega-3: quinoa, wild rice

Monica Reinagel

#27. Call me hopelessly paranoid, but this whole place was starting to seem creepily idyllic. Like, my bedroom was charming. Charming! What did I know about charming? I'd never called anything charming before in my life.

James Patterson

#28. All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Paula Abdul

#29. Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

John Wooden

#30. Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

Cassandra Clare