Countryman Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and…
— Hal Borland
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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries…
— Oswald Spengler
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The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in…
— William Gurnall
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I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am…
— Swami Vivekananda
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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he…
— Aristotle
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Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort…
— Henry Lawson
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The…
— Joanne Harris
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Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the…
— George Grey
Who Wrote These Countryman Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Countryman Quotes as follows: