Wild Oats

Wild Oats or wild oats may refer to:

  • Avena, a genus of grasses that includes the cereal oat
  • Chasmanthium latifolium or wild oats, a grass
  • Uvularia sessilifolia or wild oats, a bellwort
  • Wild Oats (TV series), a 1994 sitcom
  • Wild Oats Markets, a natural foods and farmers' market chain of stores in North America
  • Wild Oats XI, a maxi yacht
  • Wild Oats (1919 film), a film starring Gertrude Le Brandt
  • Wild Oats (play), a 1791 comic play by John O'Keeffe, later rewritten and set in the American West by James McLure

Read more about Wild Oats:  See Also

Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or oats:

    By a route obscure and lonely,
    Haunted by ill angels only,
    Where an eidolon, named Night,
    On a black throne reigns upright,
    I have reached these lands but newly
    From an ultimate dim Thule—
    From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
    Out of space—out of time.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)