Country Quotes
The love of one? s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?Pablo Casals
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.William Shakespeare
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.Homer, The Iliad
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Oscar Wilde
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.Annie Besant
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
Stranger in a strange country.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.Neville Chamberlain
How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.Charles De Gaulle
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cather, My Antonia
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.Golda Mei
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cathe
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.Sir Henry Wotton
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.Senator Soape
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.Marquis de Lafayette
No country can be described as free - But each has different degrees of bondage.Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping.Jeff Melvoin
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country.Joseph Addison
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.Will Rogers
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.Thomas Paine
You can cover a great deal of country in books.Andrew Lang
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.Lord Acton
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.Will Rogers
