Agriculture Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Agriculture.
Top Quotes
“Ten acres and a mule.”
“Three acres and a cow.”
“Continua messe senescit ager.”
“May a clever farmer live at home with you.”
“Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad cœlum.”
“La terre, elle, ne ment pas [The land, it does not lie].”
“Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.”
“Majores fertilissium in agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.”
“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”
“Oculos et vestigia domini, res agro saluberrimas, facilius admittit.”
“Arbores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam ipse numquam.”
“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
“Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand,
And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.”
“Ill husbandry lieth
In prison for debt:
Good husbandry spieth
Where profit to get.”
“Wikipedia: Agriculture”
“Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.”
“Ill husbandry braggeth
To go with the best:
Good husbandry baggeth
Up gold in his chest.”
“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
“Where grows?—where grows it not? If vain our toil,
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”