Good Corn Quotes

#1. I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

Charles Kuralt

#3. Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn.

Hans Fallada

#4. If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#6. The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

Mark Twain

#7. But let the good old corn adorn
The hills our fathers trod;
Still let us, for his golden corn,
Send up our thanks to God!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#8. Age of the geek, baby!

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#9. For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#10. Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#11. Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

Matthew Arnold

#12. Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

Paul Engle

#13. Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of a crime. When duress is applied to the emotionally unstable the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable.

Emily Thorne

#14. For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere;
And out of olde bokis, in good fey,
Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#15. Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

William Howard Taft

#17. You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#18. Grandma said that a skillet's good for three things: frying chicken, baking corn bread, and going upside an obstinate man's head.

Lisa Shearin

#19. O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

Hugh Latimer

#20. Deserts need trees; men need wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine
molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter.

Linda Leigh Hargrove

#22. God lets the guilty live right among the good, hurting them all they want; he lets the tares grow amid the corn.

Orson Scott Card

#23. Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

Garrison Keillor

#24. Too much sanity may be madness.

Miguel De Cervantes

#25. With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

Amish Tripathi

#26. I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

Howlin' Wolf

#27. E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared

Albert Einstein