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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.