Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
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.
Oats are great - you can make meatloaf and use oats instead of bread as the binder, or you can make oatmeal cookies, my husband's favorite.
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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.
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.