Weeds want no sowing. [ Proverb ]

Forbear not sowing because of birds. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Contrivances of the time
For sowing broadcast the seeds of crime. [ Longfellow ]

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [ Manilius ]

The sowing of wild oats is necessary in the life of a man. Libertinism is a leaven that ferments sooner or later. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]