barn quotes

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

-John Bunyan
  The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

The lads in their hundredsto Ludlowcome in for the fair, There'smen fromthe barn and the forge and themill and the fold, The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there, And there with the rest are lads that will never be old.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.23.

   While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before. 576

-John Milton
c.1631 L'Allegro, l.49^52.