Broom Corn

Famous quotes containing the words broom and/or corn:

    At market and fair, all folks do declare,
    There is none like the Boy that sold Broom, green Broom.
    —Unknown. Broom, Green Broom (l. 23–24)

    We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)