Plough deep while sluggards sleep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
He that by the plough would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive. [ Proverb ]
You must plough with such oxen as you have. [ Proverb ]
If I had had no plough, you had had no corn. [ Proverb ]
Where is the dust that has not been alive?
The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors;
From human mould we reap our daily bread. [ Young ]
Better have one plough going than two cradles. [ Proverb ]
You plough with an ox that will not miss a furrow. [ Proverb ]
He that doth not plough at home won't plough abroad. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
The plough goes not well, if the ploughman hold it not. [ Proverb ]
Keep your plough jogging, so you have corn for your horses. [ Proverb ]
They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same. [ Bible ]
He's drinking at the harrow when he should be driving his plough. [ Proverb ]
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early,
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. [ Burns ]
In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed. [ Massey ]
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [ Horace ]
Why should I start at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know he is no idle husbandman; he purposeth a crop. [ Rutherford ]
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 ]
Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. [ Horace ]