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| They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day. | Source Unknown | |
| Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer |
| There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. | Bill Bryson | American Author |
| If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. | Bill Vaughan | 1915-1977, American Author, Journalist |
| Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the travelling salesman. | Carey Williams | |
| It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. | Cato The Elder | BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator |
| When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. | Daniel Webster | 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. | E(lwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985, American Author, Editor | |
| Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
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| Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. | Edward Dahlberg | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. | Eugene F. Ware | American Lawyer, Poet |
| There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable. | Fawn M. Brodie | 1915-1981, American Biographer |
| Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. | George Crabbe | 1754-1832, British Clergyman, Poet |
| While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. | Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375, French Professor, Writer |
| No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. | Hamlin Garland | |
| Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. | Henri Alain | |
| Never answer a question from a farmer. | Hubert H. Humphrey | 1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President |
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| The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose. | Lew Richfield | |
| The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God. | Meister Eckhart | 1260-1326 AD, German Mystic |
| Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. | Pope John XXIII | 1881-1963, Italian Head of Roman Catholic |
| The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, ''Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.'' I said, ''That's where I got my information about hell.'' | Vance Havner | |
| Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find. | Veronica Lake | 1919-1973, American Actress |
