Adam Smith Quotes

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

The human body needs air, water and food. Only the good Lord makes air and water. Only farmers and ranchers make food.

The pen is not mightier than the sword; and mightier than either, and more necessary, is the hoe.

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

If any one open his ditches to water his crop, but is careless, and the water flood the field of his neighbor, then he shall pay his neighbor corn for his loss

Corne, which is the staffe of life

Pasture comes before prayer.

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

Gold is the corpse of value.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way.

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.