Affordable Prairie Living

Follow the grain in your own wood. - Howard Thurman

Let's make hay while it lasts. - James Lovelock

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

Don't risk more than you can afford to lose. - Joe Segal

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

I can't afford to die - I'd lose too much money. - George Burns

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

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. - Unknown

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

Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, farm boy. - Han Solo

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

Energy, like the Biblical grain of the mustard seed, will remove mountains. - Hosea Ballou

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

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

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

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller

I took lessons in bicycle riding. But I could only afford half of them. Now I can ride a unicycle. - Steven Wright

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

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

Did you hear about the auto worker who was offered a position as president of a bank but couldn't afford the pay cut? - Unknown

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke

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

We cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. - Henry David Thoreau

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