The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
#quotes #verlyn-klinkenborg

The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #perspective

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
#proverbs #russian-proverbs #focus

We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season. ~Kim Clijsters
#quotes #kim-clijsters #seasons

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #fear #suffering

A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
#proverbs #gaelic-proverbs

The fool ignores proverbs, while the wise man learns from them. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #humor

Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #literature #reason

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #tea #truth

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#quotes #gabriel-garcia-marquez #children #nobel-prize

Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #excuses #faults

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
#proverbs #friendship #cat

A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #friendship

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #beauty

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
#quotes #charles-spurgeon #people #god

Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #thinking #speaking #writing

God heals, and the physician takes the fee. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #medicine #doctors

Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #human

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #rumors #speaking #hearing

He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #music #solitude

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
#proverbs #ethiopian-proverbs #evil

Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #quotations #maxims

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #friendship

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
#quotes #abraham-maslow #king #future