Agriculture Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

— Will Rogers

How indifferent are men to this carpenter or that fisherman, who has no word to speak of adventure or of wealth, but has only…

— Edward Everett Hale

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

— Oscar Wilde

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

— H. L. Mencken

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

— Wendell Berry

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

— Bharati Mukherjee

“I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the…

— Tracy Kidder

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

— Saadi

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at…

— Anonymous

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness…

— Marcus Aurelius

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow