Countrified Crossword Quotes & Sayings

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. — Charles Dickens

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice. — Mahatma Gandhi

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's aware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep. — A.E. Housman

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers. — Paul Gibbons

I'm alive," he groaned. "But I'm not doing a very good job of it. — Merrie Haskell

Sometimes," she said in her pretty, quiet voice, "being the one who has to work extra hard to come close to what is effortless for everyone else truly sucks. Is that what you were trying to say? — Heidi Cullinan

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again. — Abraham Lincoln

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. — Virginia Woolf

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. — Jules Feiffer

I've had friends who've lied to me, I've had friends who've done things behind my back, I've had people steal from me - and it doesn't stop me from trusting. — Kate Hudson

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas. — Patti Stanger

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. — Peter Debye

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about. — Mary J. Blige

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore. — Bradley Cooper