No corn without chaff. [ Dutch Proverb ]
In much corn is some cockle. [ Proverb ]
Look at your own corn in May,
And you'll come weeping away. [ Proverb ]
Broken sacks will hold no corn. [ Proverb ]
A long harvest and a little corn. [ Proverb ]
Such a blush
In the midst of brown was born
Like red poppies grown with corn. [ Hood ]
Much corn lies in the chaff unseen. [ Proverb ]
Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,
(Green leaves upon her golden hair!),
Green grasses through the yellow sheaves
Of autumn corn are not more fair. [ Oscar Wilde ]
To put our sickle into another man's corn. [ Proverb ]
Measure not other's corn by your own bushel. [ Proverb ]
If I had had no plough, you had had no corn. [ Proverb ]
If the brain sows not corn it plants thistles. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The heaviest head of corn hangs its head lowest. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen. [ Proverb ]
A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock. [ Proverb ]
The busy brain, that sows not corn, sows thistles. [ Proverb ]
Sparrows fight for corn, which is none of their own. [ Proverb ]
Corn is not to be gathered in the blade but the ear. [ Proverb ]
In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The poor man has his corn destroyed by hail every year. [ Proverb ]
The corn hides itself in the snow as an old man in furs. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the soul with chastenings. [ George Herbert ]
He that hath good corn may be content with some thistles. [ Proverb ]
Keep your plough jogging, so you have corn for your horses. [ Proverb ]
He'll find money for mischief when he can find none for corn. [ Proverb ]
He that sows in the highway tires his oxen, and loses his corn. [ Proverb ]
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. [ Goethe ]
It is not the husbandman, but the good weather, that makes the corn grow. [ Proverb ]
As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. [ Bacon ]
A cock, having found a pearl, said that a grain of corn would be of more value to him. [ Pierre Leroux ]
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn. [ Molinos ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
The way out of our narrowness may not be so easy as the way in. The weasel that creeps into the corn-bin has to starve himself before he can leave by the same passage. [ Bartol ]
Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons or serious discourses, are like the red and blue flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. [ Swift ]
Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]