Famous quotes containing the words slaughter, pen and/or farm:
“Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,and devour him, partly for experiments sake; but though it afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, I saw that the longest use would not make that a good practice, however it might seem to have your woodchucks ready dressed by the village butcher.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Here is a pen and here is a pencil,
Heres a typewriter, heres a stencil,
Here is a list of todays appointments,
And all the flies in all the ointments,
The daily woes that a man endures
Take them, George, theyre yours!”
—Ogden Nash (19021971)
“Farm policy, although its complex, can be explained. What it cant be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, DC, videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)