“ Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
“ Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. ”
- Truman Capote- Copy
“ There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
“ If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? ”
- William Jennings Bryan- Copy
“ As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. ”
- Gwendolyn Brooks- Copy
“ As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ”
- Sir Richard Burton- Copy
“ An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
“ Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
“ Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
“ Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give. ”
- Anthony Norvell- Copy
“ As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher -admittedly a daunting task - it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list. ”
- Olivia Goldsmith- Copy
“ Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas' cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
“ I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child. ”
- Federico Garcia Lorca- Copy
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