Agriculture - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind: And some, with whom compared ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1966<![CDATA[Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1967<![CDATA[Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. - Thomas ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1968<![CDATA[He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1969<![CDATA[E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1970<![CDATA[A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1960<![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961<![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1962<![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1963<![CDATA[Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1964<![CDATA[And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1965<![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1941<![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1942<![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1943<![CDATA[Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1944<![CDATA[Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1945<![CDATA["Ten acres and a mule." ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1946<![CDATA[Three acres and a cow. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1947<![CDATA[Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds are rolled ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1948<![CDATA[The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. [Lat., Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1949<![CDATA[He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land. [Lat., ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1950<![CDATA[The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1951<![CDATA[Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1952<![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953<![CDATA[Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1954<![CDATA[The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1955<![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1956<![CDATA[He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1957<![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1958<![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1959