Country Wit: Quips and Quotes on Rural Pursuits - Hardcover

Malone, Aubrey

9781840247046: Country Wit: Quips and Quotes on Rural Pursuits

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840247045 ISBN 13: 9781840247046

Publisher: Summersdale, 2011

Full of good old fashioned ruminations on farm life and country living, a collection of quotes to bring us back to our roots "Physically there's nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens." —George Bernard Shaw "Dance with the girl that has the looks, but marry the one who has the farm." —Proverb Full of down-to-earth quotations on farming, farmers, and living the simple life, this funny and heartfelt collection will appeal to the country bumpkin in all of us.

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Aubrey Malone is the author of Hollywood Trivia and Literary Trivia.

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"'When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people.' Oscar Wilde 'There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.' Lord Amherst 'Country manners dictate that even if somebody phones you up to tell you your house is on fire, first they ask you how you are.' Alice Munro"

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PublisherSummersdale
Publication date2011
ISBN 10 1840247045
ISBN 13 9781840247046
BindingHardcover
Number of pages256

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