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— John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, 1798 [3 ... As you sow so shall you reap; Ask a silly question and you will get a silly answer
How long) because "you shall reap what you sow." (Yes, sir)" [2] "How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice ...
Birds "of a feather" (in this case red-winged blackbirds) exhibiting flocking behavior, source of the idiom. Birds of a feather flock together is an English proverb. The meaning is that beings (typically humans) of similar type, interest, personality, character, or other distinctive attribute tend to mutually associate.
"Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. ... Proverbs 3:4-6 "So you will find favor and good success in the sight of ...
Gain wisdom with these 140 best Irish blessings, proverbs and sayings. ... If you do not sow in the spring, You will not reap in the autumn. 82. May you have the hindsight to know where you've been
You got to reap just what you sow, that old saying is true (2×) Like you mistreat someone, someone's gonna mistreat you However, Prahlad adds, "His [Bland's] usage of the proverb contains a philosophical dimension that is absent from the other [songs with similar themes] and a momentary distance from the emotional wound".
The Second Epistle of Peter refers to the proverb (2 Peter 2:22), [7] "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." Kipling cites this in his poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings as one of several classic examples of repeated folly:
I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry. " ' "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?'