“ The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns' people worry all the time. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 529
“ A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 3.2K
“ When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 3.4K
“ You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. ”
- Stanley Kubrick- Copy
- 2.7K
“ He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ”
- Johann von Goethe- Copy
- 388
“ The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. ”
- Eugene F. Ware- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There have been tens of thousands of suicides by farmers in the country, and the government wants to dispute what a suicide is, who a farmer is. ”
- Arundhati Roy- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such. ”
- Nicolas Cage- Copy
- 1.6K
“ This is a very serious matter — that you have Syrian involvement in the assassination of the former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. ”
- Condoleezza Rice- Copy
- 3.4K
“ There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ”
- Bill Bryson- Copy
- 580
“ 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- Copy
- 129
“ A guy like John Givens, who sells at farmers markets, that's the way to go. ”
- Scott Garrett- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. ”
- George Crabbe- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. ”
- Henri Alain- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. ”
- Cato the Elder- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. ”
- Ruth Stout- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. ”
- King Henry IV- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 1.9K
- 1
- 2