farmyard quotes

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Getting Married, preface,'The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy'.

She understood how much louder a cockcan crow in its own farmyard then elsewhere.

- Anthony Trollope
  The Last Chronicle of Barset, ch.17.