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Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half. — Philip Jose Farmer

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? — Tom Barrett

The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow. — Philip Jose Farmer

The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge. — Lydia Hoyt Farmer

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. — B.C. Forbes

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural. — Henry David Thoreau

Sure as eggs is eggs," he said. "As the turkey-farmer said when he hatched his first turtle. — Neil Gaiman

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. — William Howard Taft

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish. — Hermann Hesse

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower. — Harry S. Truman

Food delights us, food unites us, food embodies the soil, the sea and the weather, the farmer's sweat and the fisherman's toil. — Don George

In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. — Thomas Jefferson

Farmer barn dances, although the — Lois McMaster Bujold

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings. — Robert Patterson

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

Why would a farmer lock the doors of his turkey farm? — Jonathan Safran Foer

As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. — Billy Graham

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend. — Jerry Moran

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. — Robertson Davies

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back. — Brenda Sutton Rose

We would do much better as leaders in the Church to learn at the feet of the farmer rather than study with the CEO of a corporation. — Neil Cole

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding ... — Vita Sackville-West

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere. — Jim Hightower

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener. — Nancy Farmer

On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again. — Philip Jose Farmer

When a scarecrow blows apart in a gale wind, the farmer just props up another one. It's the job to be done that's important, not who does it. — Gregory Maguire

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams. — T.A. Barron

The fortune of the man who sits also sits — Philip Jose Farmer

Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window. — Penelope Farmer

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. — Paul Farmer

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves. — David Ricardo

How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil? — Nancy Farmer

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. — Paul Farmer

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart. — Rumi

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate. — Philip Jose Farmer

She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate. — Paula Marantz Cohen

I take my kids to the farmer's market - knowing I'm buying local and fresh makes the humiliation of the little choo-choo train ride worthwhile. — Sara Gilbert

I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip. — Bill McLaren

I love the idea of farm to table and farmer's markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I'm eating something that's good quality and good for me. — Haylie Duff

Lab to land - how to get what is done in the lab to the land, to the farmer. — Narendra Modi

Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer's porch. Our choice is in the drinking. — Harley King

I miss the comfort in being sad, — Frances Farmer

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so? — Sharad Pawar

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction. — James L. Farmer Jr.

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay. — Mae West

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money — Paul Farmer

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. — Philip Jose Farmer

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university. — James Hansen

All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter. — Philip Jose Farmer

For gold the merchant ploughs the main,
The farmer ploughs the manor. — Robert Burns

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman. — Carey Williams

Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back. — Michael Pollan

Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. — Jen Lancaster

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. — Paul Farmer

I could do it," Listen boasted. "Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet."
"You can't even reach the on button," said Cienfuegos. — Nancy Farmer

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight? — Philip Jose Farmer

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer Jr.

A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer. — Evan Esar

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me. — Dan Farmer

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one. — Sharad Pawar

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head. — Jane Asher

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden. — Nancy Farmer

The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
Shall sorrow put my books away?
Thereby are two days lost. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. — Mike Connolly

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. — David F. Houston

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress. — Bruce Braley

Equity is the only acceptable goal — Paul Farmer

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts. — Will Rogers

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. — Thomas Jefferson

Call me Meier, Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke . — Philip Jose Farmer

I am a farmer singing at the plow — Jesse Stuart

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. — Eugene Fitch Ware

Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat. — Donald Hall

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health. — Paul Farmer

BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages. — Narendra Modi

Tomorrow changes the face of reality. — Philip Jose Farmer

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. — Paul Farmer

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. — Carla Bley

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses. — Will Rogers

I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm going to cook for the next two, three or four days. — Tia Mowry

Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer. — Nick Offerman

I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down. — Nancy Farmer

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer

For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed. — Nancy Farmer

Dreams haunted The Riverworld. — Philip Jose Farmer

Trust the horticulturalist: California's genius may be green, but it's underlying beauty is brown. — Jared Farmer

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. — Moby

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain

I'll be any man you want. A king or a beggar or a farmer or a killer. But I'll never be the man who can let you walk away. — Kit Rocha

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it. — Ellen Glasgow

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage. — Philip Jose Farmer

The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society. — M.C. Mary Kom