Farming And Farmers

(253 votes)   Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Henri Alain

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(247 votes)   It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

George Sand
1804-1876, French Novelist

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(104 votes)   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

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(83 votes)   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

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(82 votes)   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

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(81 votes)   Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(75 votes)   Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(75 votes)   I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(70 votes)   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

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(69 votes)   Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(67 votes)   By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(67 votes)   He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted -- and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

Ellen Glasgow
1874-1945, American Novelist

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(66 votes)   Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

P. J. O'Rourke
1947-, American Journalist

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(61 votes)   No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(59 votes)   Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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