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  • The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

    Hay   Tomatoes   Cain  
  • I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected

    Flower   Heart   Lakes  
    Thomas Merton, Lynn Szabo (2005). “In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton”, p.97, New Directions Publishing
  • I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  • You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.

    Jobs   Air   Hay  
  • People are amazed because I don't get much with the colds. Sometimes in the spring or in the fall, I'll get a little hay fever.

    Spring   Fall   Hay Fever  
    "Trump Reveals Health Records On Dr. Oz". Interview with Dr. Oz, www.dailywire.com. September 15, 2016.
  • The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.

    Teaching   Men   Essence  
    George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.6149, e-artnow
  • I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. But where The wind is westerly, Where gnarled November makes the spiders fly Into the apparitions of the sky, They purpose nothing but their ease and die Urgently beating east to sunrise and the sea.

    Swimming   Air   August  
    Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "Mr Edwards and the Spider"
  • I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of the John Hay Library, you have all of Lovecraft's archives. And messing around in there, I noticed, I said, what are these paintings? And the librarian told me, "Well, those are Pickman's paintings." I said, "I thought this was like something he made up, like The Necronomicon, that kind of stuff." And he said no, that the guy actually existed.

    Mean   People   Guy  
    Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com
  • 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.

    Soul   Hay   Stacking  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.89, Xist Publishing
  • If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

    Ties   Fire   Energy  
    "The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow" by Fred Warshofsky, (p. 21), 1989.
  • Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-

    Summer   July   Bud  
    Emily Dickinson (2016). “Emily Dickinson”, p.13, Moondance Press
  • The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever.

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

    Rain   Hay   Rats  
    Song: How Can We See That Far, Album: Heart in Motion, 1991
  • The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

    Loss   Hay   May  
  • Make hay while the sun is still shining.

    Shining   Hay   Sun  
  • We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

    Dream   Kings   Real  
  • (from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

    President   Diaries   Hay  
  • 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.

    Boys   Hay   Famous Women  
  • Make hay while the sun shines.

    John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”
  • Let's make hay while it lasts.

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

    Shining   Hay   Sun  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

    Hay   May   Needles  
    D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
  • When the sun shineth, make hay.

    Hay   Sun  
    John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.445
  • Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

    Letter to Max Eastman, 1936.
  • 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 (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17
  • It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

    Years   Soil   Bears  
  • This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.

    Real   Lying   Food  
  • The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

    Simple   Keys   Light  
    Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”
  • I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.

    Party   Guitar   House  
    "Chris Isaak Pays Tribute To Sun Studio's Golden Years". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 27, 2011.
  • 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.

    Home   Mean   Cutting  
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