Affordable Prairie Living

Follow the grain in your own wood. - Howard Thurman

Cursing the weather is never good farming. - English Proverb

The thicker the hay, the easier it is mowed. - Alaric the Goth

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor. - Jon Tester

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. - Groucho Marx

If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it. - J P Morgan

A good farm is recognized as good partly by its beauty. - Wendell Berry

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. - George Washington

Farm: What a city man dreams of at 5 P.M., never at 5 A.M. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals. - Sheri L. Dew

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

Gentleman Farmer: One who has more hay in the bank thank in the barn - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. - Pierre Renoir

After I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. - Christy Romano

We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales. - Franz von Holzhausen

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau

I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles. - Thomas Edison

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field. - Jim Hunt

We need more young people involved in farming because the future needs real food. - Helena Sylvester

I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. - Betsy Salkind

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring. - Jeff Foxworthy

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material. - Robin Williams

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice; if he leaves it empty, he gets actors. - Bill Vaughan

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. - Bill Bryson

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. - Dwight D Eisenhower

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. - Lincoln Davis

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.' - Ree Drummond

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again. - Britt Ekland

Bruce Lee's fast pace, Jet Li's pretty style and Jet Li's acrobatics combine with Muay Thai for my own style. - Tony Jaa

Lawyers are like cheeses. There are lots of good ones, but not everybody likes the taste of some or can afford the best of others. - Robin Ellison

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. - Nelson Mandela

What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin. - Dave Attell

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin