Make your hay as best you may. [ Proverb ]
Make hay while the sun shines. [ Proverb ]
To seek a needle in a bottle of hay. [ Proverb ]
Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow.
The harvest wave, the vintage flow. [ Warton ]
Make no orts (leftovers) of good hay. [ Proverb ]
A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay,
Is all one at Doomsday. [ Proverb ]
Tittle-tattle, give the goose more hay. [ Proverb ]
I am talking of hay, and you of horse beans. [ Proverb ]
It is hard to make a good web of a bottle of hay. [ Proverb ]
Sick of the mulligrubs with eating of chopped hay. [ Proverb ]
You eat up that grass, which I meant to make hay of. [ Proverb ]
In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The dog in the manger (that would not let the ox eat the hay which he could not eat himself).
As for the ass's behavior in such nice circumstances, whether he would starve sooner than violate his neutrality to the two bundles of hay, I shall not presume to determine. [ Addison ]