Top 37 Countryman Quotes
#1. 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 of thanks do we get for it?
Henry Lawson
#2. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
#3. War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.
Brian A. McBride
#4. Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing, large, present, and at ease.
Iris Murdoch
#5. Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.
George Washington
#6. But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back. Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#7. 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 in a fellow countryman.
Diana Wynne Jones
#8. 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 the truth.
William Gurnall
#9. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be prettiest.
David Rakoff
#10. And when a countryman says the cold freezes water, though the word freezing seems to import some action, yet truly it signifies nothing, but the effect, videlicet that water, that was before fluid, is become hard and consistent, without containing any idea of the action whereby it is done.
John Locke
#11. A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."
Thomas Sowell
#12. 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 injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
Hal Borland
#13. A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.
Pythagoras
#14. I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects ... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] should be bred up in it too.
William Cobbett
#15. 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 lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.
Joanne Harris
#16. 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 rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
George Grey
#17. Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.
Swami Vivekananda
#18. No countryman ever speaks to an animal without blaspheming it, although if he be engaged in some solitary work and inspired to music, he invariably sings a hymn in a voice that seems to have some vague association with wood pulp.
A.E. Coppard
#20. Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.
Helen Exley
#21. Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.
They always put me in a bad mood.
Clinton Boomer
#22. What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe?
Joan Countryman
#23. It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they write it down for 10 minutes they become much more available for whatever it is we want to do in the class.
Joan Countryman
#24. Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.
Swami Vivekananda
#25. Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.
Kim Harrison
#26. I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.
Jim Shaw
#28. The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it.
Anthony Marra
#30. My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.
Chrisette Michele
#31. If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
Edgar Degas
#32. We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things - this is evidence of human stupidity.
C. JoyBell C.
#33. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
Iris Murdoch
#34. she surveyed the chaos of her apartment and told herself, as she had almost every morning for the past two years, that she would start unpacking when she got home.
Tracy Ewens
#35. I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.
Joan Countryman
#36. I have got everything which a politician needs.
Tariq Anwar
#37. Even among the Amish, other Amish seem odd.
Ira Wagler
