The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Oscar Wilde

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

This country of endured but unendurable pain.

Tennessee Williams

The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

Betty Friedan

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

Charles Kuralt

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

Charles Kuralt

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

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

William Cobbett

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Ralph Nader

The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.

Jacques Chirac

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t.

William Temple, Sr.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

James A. Michener

The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged.

Hasidic Proverb

Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

Charles Churchill

The map is not the territory.

Alfred Korzybski

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

Christopher Isherwood

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

Wendell Johnson

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

Stuart Keate

It was as if Japan had fallen victim to a case of collective amnesia.

Peter Goldman

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa, the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York.

Frank Dane

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

Barry Humphries

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

Kevin Keegan

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

Cleveland Amory

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

Mark Twain

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Mark Twain

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

Rebecca Harding Davis

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Russell Crowe

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

Denis Leary

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

Bob Dole

The country will be very pleased-the country is so bowel-minded anyway and it is important.

Dr. Paul Dudley White

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

E. Y. Harburg

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Elizabeth David

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

Ernesto Sábato

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli

In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.

Benjamin Disraeli

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Stranger in a strange country.

Sophocles

Ha ha! Look at this country! ? U R Gay!? Ha ha! (looking at Uruguay on the globe).

Matt Groening

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Alexander Graham Bell

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

Where would this country be without this great land of ours?

Ronald Reagan

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

George S. Patton

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

John Adams

Most imports are from outside of the country.

George W. Bush

The most powerful case in the country.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

The children are amazed. They're like, 'Really, really? People from all over the country are helping us?

Monique Manigat

How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

Al McGuire

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

Nestor Kirchner

She approaches the problem of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.

Denis Healey

The longest constitution-drafting convention in any country in the world.

Aung Zaw

As citizen(s) of the country and as a human being(s), we want to help out.

Bob Morrison

Nobody wants this country to collapse.

Jill Dougherty

All America mourns because of this. This country is not going to come to a standstill because of this. The country is far greater that this.

Kavi Raz

There?s no place like it in the country.

Paul Willis

I think it's a real neat town, ... This is beautiful country.

James Roberts

I enlisted in the Air Corps, and I was doing what I wanted to do to help the country.

Lionel Greenberg

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Gen William C. Westmoreland

If they didn't perish in the bombs they are still out there somewhere or have left the country.

Andy Trotter

We have classmates from all over the country who come back for our reunion.

Michael Caputo

Economic divide in this country that we are fighting as a group to address.

Chris Kofinis

It's funny, because if Tom Petty or R.E.M. came out today, they'd be alt-country.

Rhett Miller

Our approach to this is consistent with other states in New England and around the country.

David Tucker

She (Sonia) wants to create anarchy in this country. She became a victim of her own actions.

Uma Bharati

It's the biggest project of its kind in the country.

Jon Williams

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

Robert H. Jackson

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.

Abe Bonowitz

It was the high country that really took the bulk of the storm so far.

Stacey Stegman

There will probably be some in Wichita. I think they're going to be all over the country.

Dawson Grimsley

In Columbine they (police) weren't prepared, and they were crucified. Every agency in the country has learned from that.

Sgt. Scott Fray

The things I do for my country.

Vin Diesel

In our Country . . . one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

It's very apparent that anybody can win. The rest of the country has shown that, on any given day, you can be beat if you're not ready.

Herman Demmink

We will not allow ships to enter the ports and they should to their own country.

Fadel Muhammad

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Every location in the country is exposed to one disaster or another.

Wendy Rose

Country music belongs to America.

Bill Monroe

China is in the process of vaccinating all the poultry in the country.

Jia Youling

I will admit that the speed with which the phenomenon has spread across the country has been a little bit surprising.

Susan Robertson

It's happening all over the country.

Partha Banerjee

He gave a lot to this country.

Robert Ray

Megawati has no strategy of how she wants to run the country.

Salim Said

The purpose of the National Guard never was to occupy another country.

Bob Hanson

We're going to achieve a democratic scenario in the Basque country.

Arnaldo Otegi

There are very few people advocating for the poor in this state or in the country. Poor people have no voice.

Patricia Wright

Depending on the country they are traveling to, gastrointestinal complaints seem to be No. 1.

Ashley Christiani

We would like to specify that the threat only concerns the embassy and does not affect any US citizens in the country.

Kathryn Taylor

We're here for the American dream, we're not here for any other country, we're not here because we love other countries, we're here because we were told about the American dream.

Gino Zendejas

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Federico Garcia Lorca

It is not a stretch to say, from my experience, Rutgers is one of the most accommodating places in this country.

David Fricke

This time we are making it the biggest dating event in the country.

Gao Quan

Across the country, we have awful breakfast participation.

Peggy West

It's awesome. We're dedicated to this country.

Chad Taylor

I had to be the only child in this country who ever called his father 'The King.'

Kyle Petty

I have had enough of cross country and I now want to concentrate on track.

Benjamin Limo

The country is gradually becoming more anti-smoker. I'm not sure who will have the bigger pull.

Jonathan Massell

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

Yeah. Once in this country.

Tim Belden

Our dogs have traveled all over the country.

Connie Guthrie

The great thing about our country is we all get to say what we feel and believe. Whether you agree with him, or whether I agree with him or not, he has the right to say what he thinks.

Joel Madden

That pushed me to go in -- do something for my country.

Chris Bostic

It's the 'why' question. Why did they do that to me? Why did they do that to our country?

Paul Heath

I call on citizens to attend the funeral, as our wish to have the funeral in the country has been fulfilled.

Milorad Vucelic

Tony was widely admired by his peers both here and across the country.

Skip Perez

It's a big honor to be on the team and represent my country.

Peter Budaj

Six years in this country - this is the worst accident I've seen.

George Franco

Ohio has some of the highest campaign contribution limits in the country.

Keary Mccarthy

The alternative is to put a police officer in every store in the country and we can't do that.

Ken Hansen

Our suicide attackers will continue jihad until Americans and all of their Muslim and non-Muslim allies are pulled out of the country.

Mullah Dadullah

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Nicholas Murray Butler

This is not the end. This is the beginning. There is much work to be done in this country.

George Speight

He wanted to find out what's going on in country music and what's going on with us.

John Rich

To re-attract tourists into the country we have to adopt new policies.

Huseyin Baraner

Natural gas prices increased across the country, including Alberta.

Sebastien Lavoie

We have decided to do so because of the general security situation in the country.

Lars Thuesen

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

Peter Jackson

We don't want our state to be more attractive to people who engage in these activities, as the one place in the country where you can go and do this.

Jeff Rosenthal

We have one of the most aggressive marketing campaigns for technology in the country.

Jane Muir

There's a touch of country here even though we're in close proximity to the city.

Larry Hinrichs

People come from all over the country to our festival. It has been wildly successful.

Joe Lee

It's down to the coach now but hopefully I can get the opportunity to represent my country again.

Archie Thompson

Where were the calls we hear from Arab and Islamic countries when Saddam was messing up the country?

Hazem Sha'alan

In the country of pain we are each alone.

May Sarton

And they're buying twice as much country as classic rock.

Russ Crupnick

We've got two of the best tight ends in the country, and we're going to use those guys.

Shawn Watson

Beautiful, glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country!

Mary Todd Lincoln

I just like to compete. Cross country is a lot of fun.

Dan Phillips

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

George Borrow

Sure, there have been some good placements of Country Music.

Alan Brewer

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

Clare Short

This is what our country is all about. Everybody is proud of their American citizenship and they want to do the best they can to represent that.

Michael Young

I'm very excited about that, to represent my country.

Francisco Liriano

This is a bad company and a bad country.

Ron Carver

I've got good ideas about how to move this community and this country forward.

Lee Harris

The country in town.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

The most popular governor in the country.

Michael Sohn

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

James Wyatt

It is a crisis for individuals, families, communities, agencies, and governments across the country.

Robert Mcswain

I love a regional campus. I'm a country girl. You would love to stay here if you can.

Karen Kelley

This is as seismic and massive [to New Orleans] as the Civil War was to the rest of the country.

Robbie Vitrano

Principles don't mean anything unless they apply to all citizens of this country.

Melvin Watt

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Mel Brooks

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

Bill Maher

To offer something to a citizen or homeowners in one state and not offer to citizens in another state is not the country I grew up in.

Sean Reilly

I've never considered us a country band, ... Even after this record, people still call us a country band. Have they listened to this record?

Jeff Tweedy

Shelters all over the country are already filled with bunnies.

Quan Myers

They did it because it's close to Downtown. Back in the old country, that's where people lived.

Peter Page

You can't want reform more than a country itself does.

Gene Sperling

I campaigned for dad all over the country.

Jack Carter

This is a violation of the sovereignty of the country. We will not allow it.

Somawansa Amarasinghe

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

John Jay

We're not gonna put WTO conditions on China that have never been put on any other country before.

Gene Sperling

There was this huge, huge city. I wondered, 'What will I do in this country?' It was a big, big change. We had to start again from zero.

Pavel Fomin

I love this country. You can't lie about saying you don't love this country. This country is the best I'll ever be in. This country is beautiful.

Daniel Diaz

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

Michael Palin

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

Thomas Starr King

We were the only market in the country to do that.

Brenda Kinne

In 2004, we signed up a distributor in Colombia, and the country also started to contribute to our revenues in 2005.

Patrick Beyer

From votes counted across the country, the 'Yes' has 78.47 percent and the 'No' has 21.03 percent.

Apollinaire Malu Malu

The curriculum will be in line with that of any other advanced country.

Ashraf Qazi

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Barack Obama

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

Jonathan Raban

Hancock is like a country club.

Jose Ortiz

The unity of the country, the forward progress of the country, would be lost.

Sir Jeremy Greenstock

We have very different philosophies on how we serve our country.

Kit Bond

That in the end the Democrats will come around and join us for the good of the country.

Ron Bonjean

Some say he's the best in the country. I just want to go out and wrestle the best and see what I can do against him.

Trevin Cowman

I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.

Neil Kinnock

We think it would be the biggest refinery in the country.

Danny Harris

In the interest of 70,000 journalists in our country, I am asking the ruling chancellor to take back his accusations.

Michael Konken

I believe the ACC and Big 12 are definitely two of the best conferences in the country anywhere, night in and night out.

Ricardo Patton

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Amy Grant

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Marion Barry

They were seeking political asylum and trying to avoid persecution in their country. They said they were Christians.

Rene Salinas

It was worse than any country bar - it was unbelievable.

William Cole

I'm a country redneck bloke.

Dave Allen

The Brunswick Country Club is a special place, and it will continue to be a special place. It's just going to be re-created.

Dan Hogan

I think we have a long way to go to better prepare this country.

Jerome Hauer

It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this country through these very dangerous areas.

David Aguilar

In our own country, we are being harassed. We came here voluntarily with few cadres but we are being blocked.

Michael Sata

It's a story about pride and love. Pride for your country and love for this game.

Dan Klores

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles

We are a very small country, so it's a great day for the country.

Andrus Veerpalu

The whole country will be watching.

Will Allen

They have these all over the country. They're really popular.

Toledo Blade

Bring stability to the country.

Abdullah Abdullah

You can go help out the country, go overseas and learn a lot.

Lindsay Graham