FastSaying

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Edward Hoagland

Related Quotes

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
— Edward Hoagland
AppreciatedBehaveBest
It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
— Sargent Shriver
Be PreparedBetterLife
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
— Barbara Johnson
AheadAlwaysBetter
When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
— Edward Hoagland
AnimalsBigBrothers
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
— David Josiah Brewer
BetterBetter LifeCommandments